Word: emphysema
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Just before her 90th birthday, retired executive secretary Doris Haddock took a 14-month walk across the country to agitate on behalf of campaign finance reform. Neither arthritis, nor emphysema, nor American apathy could stop the populist activism of the woman who came to be known as Granny D. Three years later, she’s as fiesty as ever, continuing her travels, this time to get out the working woman’s vote. After a recent stop at Harvard, she took some time to tell FM about the sexy Swing State Project, getting arrested on Capitol Hill...
...immigrants who fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...
...kind of surgery you would never expect most people with emphysema--a degenerative, often smoking-related condition of the lungs--to agree to undergo. Called lung-volume reduction, the operation is designed to decrease the capacity of the lungs in an attempt to improve their overall efficiency. In 1996 the National Institutes of Health decided to put the controversial operation to the test. The conclusion, published last week: the surgery can help some emphysema sufferers breathe more easily and improve their quality of life. Of the 1,218 patients in the study, researchers found that those who were too ailing...
...into quitting, but you might be tempted to shrug off a 1-in-100 chance and think to yourself, As long as I quit by 42, I'm O.K. Think again. More smokers die of heart disease than lung cancer--not to mention that smokers have greater susceptibility to emphysema and other chronic illnesses...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...