Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will contract from constant exposure to asbestos, exposure that as urban dwellers they cannot now avoid. This fatal growth, called mesothelioma, can develop twenty to forty years after its victims begin to inhale the asbestos fiber. The tumor attacks the pleura and peritonium--the membrane sacks that surround the lung and abdominal cavities--and can grow whether or not the exposure continues. Most alarming of all, the number of asbestos fibers in the air around us increases every year...
...fibers, intermeshing with the tissue of the lung, had condensed to form small asbestos bodies that were visible upon autopsy. They had passed from the lungs into the pleural and peritonial sacks, and over a 20- to 40-year period had caused the malignant growths...
...that resuscitative and supportive mechanisms (heart-lung machines, pacemakers, electric shock treatment) are capable in certain cases of indefinitely preserving breathing and heartbeat, doctors are being forced to turn to the brain for critical signs of death. But even more than recent technical interventions, Hendin claims, it was the surgical revolution--reaching its peak with the first heart transplants of the late sixties--that did the most to "blur the shadowy line between the quick and the dead." Until a modern, ethical, legal, medical and religious definition of the death concept is established, doctors will be unable to make vital...
Died. Frank Smithwick Hogan, 72, Manhattan's tough, scrupulously honest "Mr. District Attorney" for 32 years; following a stroke and surgery for lung cancer; in Manhattan. Born to Irish immigrant parents. Hogan worked his way through Columbia University law school arid in 1935 joined the staff of New York City's special prosecutor Thomas Dewey in an antimob crusade that resulted in the conviction of racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought...
...report said that a burning cigarette can be as lethal for the non-smoker who breathes it as for the smoker who puffs it. This worried nonsmokers, of course, because it confirmed that all the health hazards the Surgeon General warned smokers about in his famous 1964 report--lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the rest--were hazards they faced as well, merely because they lived and worked with smokers. But the 1972 report also pleased non-smokers: Here, at last, were solid medical reasons to restrict smoking in public...