Word: emphysema
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DIED. JEAN PATCHETT, 75, popular fashion model who was featured on more than 40 magazine covers, including Vogue, in the 1950s; of emphysema; in La Quinta, Calif. Irving Penn, who made Patchett famous with a moody 1949 photograph that showed her sitting in a cafe chewing on her pearls, called her an "American goddess in Paris couture...
...that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...
Here I invoke the inexpressive but useful axiom that history repeats itself. Many of the fashionable and peer-bonded teens who blithely smoked their Pall Malls in the ’50s have since succumbed to emphysema. And there are other studies, too numerous to cite, which indicate one final, fatal similarity: cells and cigs are both carcinogenic. In the same way that, in 1954, cigarette companies formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to scrutinize the effects of cigarettes, so now are wireless companies commissioning similar studies on cell phones. Just as a hacking cough is today the sign...
LUNG REDUX A highly promoted type of surgery for emphysema that removes up to 30% of the lung so that healthier parts can expand shows little benefit and a high risk of death for the sickest patients. Results were released early to keep similar patients out of the O.R. Still, proponents insist, the operation works. --By Amanda Bower...
...DiBenedetto would never get to call Maddux's parents with good news. Ill and depressed over a leg amputation, Fred Maddux killed himself in 1988. Two years later, his wife died of emphysema. Holly's murder "ruined their life," daughter Elisabeth says. "And they died thinking that Ira beat them...