Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victims, including ten of those who died, had been seriously ill with other ailments even before they were stricken by the mysterious fever. Three had received kidney transplants and were hospitalized on the same surgical floor. Another was a longtime alcoholic. Several had cancer. Still others had chronic lung disease. Their ages ranged from 16 to the late 60s, but they all apparently shared one characteristic: either because of illness or medication, their immune systems were so weakened that they were especially vulnerable to infections...
...intake of this additive in diet drinks has only occurred in relatively recent years. In man, a latent period measured sometimes in years and sometimes in decades is often observed between exposure to a carcinogen and clinical evidence of cancer. In the case of cigarette smoking, its relation to lung cancer was established only after decades of exposure by human populations...
...divorced people are far likelier prey to disease than married folk. Some examples: the coronary death rate among widows between 25 and 34 is five times that of married women in the same age group. At all ages, the divorced are twice as likely as the married to develop lung cancer or suffer a stroke. Among divorced white males, cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common, and tuberculosis ten times more common...
...death or brain damage probably was four minutes. But in waters below 21° C. (70° F.), the four-minute rule seemed to be suspended. Of 15 victims rescued after a minimum of four minutes from the chilly waters that abound in Michigan, Nemiroff found, two died of lung infections and two suffered brain damage. But eleven, including Cunningham and a physician who has since successfully resumed his medical practice, were resuscitated without long-term injury. "The patients are as damaged as, say, somebody who is hit on the head with a blackjack. There is brain damage...
...Griffin or the Tonight show. The host is professionally affable, the guests are the usuals: a loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest and, so far, funniest invention...