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Pfizer makes a life-saving drug called fluconazole, which treats two AIDS-related opportunistic diseases--a painful and deadly brain infection called cryptoccal meningitis and another potentially fatal disease called esophageal candidiasis...
...seriousness of his condition so well that even Congress was in the dark. The Senate was reduced to dispatching a "smelling committee" to the White House in a failed attempt to sniff out his real condition. John Kennedy flatly denied that he had Addison's disease, an often fatal immune-system disorder that he struggled with all his life. After he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981, Ronald Reagan was closer to death, and slower to recover, than anyone admitted at the time. And in 1992, when Paul Tsongas was a Democratic presidential candidate, he and his doctors...
...nothing to stop Katherine Harris from using her discretion to allow one. Al Gore says there's still time. We all ought to hope he's right about that, because if he's wrong--if it's too late--we have just done serious damage to American democracy. Not fatal damage, to be sure. But just a month ago we thought it was invulnerable...
...After that breakout performance, many of Harvard's opponents decided to double-team the elusive Morris. This proved to be a fatal strategy, as Rose was able to spread the ball around to other receivers, such as sophomores Kyle Cremarosa and Sean Meeker, and juniors Dan Farley and Sam Taylor. Also, senior tight ends Chris Stakich and Brandan Kramer provided additional threats for the prolific Rose...
Survivability is a top issue in aviation safety today. The widely held perception is that an airline crash is always a catastrophically fatal one. Yet in more than 90% of airplane accidents, some or all of the people on board survive. That figure could be greatly increased. Crucial problems still exist in safety procedures and equipment, according to a June report on cabin safety by the U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board. Over the past 20 years, the Federal Aviation Administration has improved cabin safety by limiting the size of carry-on baggage, requiring nonflammable seat coverings and mandating reliable...