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When the fungus goes no farther than the windpipe and lungs, it may touch off what seems like a bad cold. More severe cases are often mistaken for bronchitis and tuberculosis. But the deadliest form of the disease is inflammation of the brain covering. Cryptococcal meningitis was always fatal until the antifungal drug, amphotericin B, came into use six years ago. Now the death rate is down to about 30% of meningitis victims. But nobody knows exactly how many cases of CN lung disease there are because the vast majority are not diagnosed correctly. New York City records about...
...Brigham doctors were well aware that pregnancy is notoriously hard on a normal woman's paired kidneys. Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances. Could a single kidney bear the added stresses of pregnancy? The question became a crisis early in 1956 when Wanda Foster and Edith Helm went to Boston from Oklahoma. The twins were 21 years old and both were married, though neither had yet had any children. Edith's longstanding kidney disease had become...
Finches and crows stage nasty attacks, but seagulls turn out to be deadliest. At the climax, Rod Taylor has barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there...
...parlance, Dick Barnett is a "gunner"-a player whose natural inclination is to let fly whenever he gets his hands on the ball. He cannot battle like Baylor under the backboards, or bulldoze past bigger players for driving lay-ups like West. But he possesses one of the deadliest outside shots in basketball-a delicate, left-handed jump shot that is accurate from anywhere within 25 ft. of the rim. Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that...
...main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought that the abnormal cell forms suggested an obscure type of leukemia. Others said...