Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the ability to destroy lethal blood clots may increase the chances of survival in some patients, it may have little or no effect in others. In many instances of heart attack, the coronary artery is not obstructed by a blood clot but by a fatty deposit known as a plaque. Since plaques are not susceptible to drugs like t-PA, other methods must be used to unblock the artery...
...would not represent a cure for AIDS; the virus would still be present, ready to strike again when treatment stopped. Moreover, giving an immunosuppressant to patients whose immune systems are already weakened is clearly risky. Says Dr. Donald Abrams of San Francisco General Hospital: "Cyclosporine might be quite lethal in AIDS patients for all we know...
...stratosphere and circulate around the globe. What is more, because soot does not rain out as easily as dust, the protonuclear winter would have lasted much longer than it would through obscuring dust alone. Most plants and large animals that survived the blast, the fire and the lethal clouds of carbon monoxide would have succumbed to the climatic changes. But smaller creatures could have slipped into caves and hibernated until sunlight returned and they emerged to repopulate the earth...
...potions have been a great aid to mankind, easing pain, alleviating disease, prolonging life, spurring food production and serving as the catalyst for countless useful products. But once discarded, many of these concoctions, or their by-products, turn killer, and the U.S. has no choice but to curb their lethal ways...
...self-importance and fanfare) to delve into the pleasures of clean living, none had previously told the story of the vicissitudes of drug-crazed existence quite so blatantly or prolifically as Lou Reed. None wrote a song called "Heroin." None has quit the music business so abruptly, pleading lethal side effects and a litany of near-death experiences...