Word: emphysema
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...adored. In 1976 she suffered her first stroke. Her family put the blame on the Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days, as if reading about the nightmare was worse than living it. She recovered from that stroke and another after they moved to New York in 1980. Beset by emphysema and then lung cancer, she grew ever more frail. Last week, after 81 years, the life that had been a study in selflessness came to a quiet close, surrounded by the family who understood the real Pat Ryan Nixon...
...adversaries are right, one recent case shreds Kevorkian's safety net. In February, Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of Hugh Gale, 70, an emphysema patient who may, at the last minute, have changed his mind. ^ According to one version of the report that Kevorkian wrote, about 45 seconds after putting on the carbon-monoxide mask, Gale became flushed, agitated, saying "Take it off!" The mask was immediately replaced with oxygen, which helped calm him down. "The patient wanted to continue," the report states. "After about 20 minutes, with nasal oxygen continuing, the mask was replaced over his nose and mouth...
Jonathan P. Cole told the Herald he believed his mother died of "a stroke or emphysema...
SMOKERS IN THE U.S., HIT WITH EVERYTHING FROM emphysema to excise taxes, may finally be getting the message. Federal health officials reported last week that the number of Americans who still smoke tobacco has reached a record low and is falling faster than at any other time since the government began tracking it 37 years ago. In 1955, 42% of Americans smoked cigarettes. Today nonsmokers outnumber smokers nearly...
...also turn out to be a potent lung saver, warding off the depredations of cigarette smoke, car exhaust and other pollutants. "The effects of air pollution are chronic," says Dr. Daniel Menzel of the University of California at Irvine. "Over a lifetime people develop serious diseases like bronchitis and emphysema. We have fed animals in our labs vitamin E and have found that they have fewer lung lesions and that they live longer." Menzel suggests that priming children with doses of antioxidants could protect them against lung disease as adults, much the way fluoridated water protects them against tooth decay...