Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some vitamins are easy to come by. A single orange, for example, provides 116 percent of the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of Vitamin C, which helps the body fight off colds and may lower the risk for cancer of the larynx, esophagus and lung...
...often toxic. The worst, victims agree, is amphotericin B, known as "Ampho the Terrible" to those who have to have it injected into the base of their skull for meningitis. The side effects include nausea, fever and kidney damage. In severe cases, where the fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years and can never be sure that it will not flare up again...
...defense at the 1983 trial of Brenda Clubine, who claimed that she killed her police-informant husband because he was going to kill her. Clubine says that during an 11-year relationship, she was kicked, punched, stabbed, had the skin on one side of her face torn off, a lung pierced, ribs broken. She had a judge's order protecting her and had pressed charges to have her husband arrested for felony battery. But six weeks later, she agreed to meet him in a motel, where Clubine alleges that she felt her life was in danger and hit him over...
...AGENCY, AFTER A curious delay, gave nonsmokers more ammunition to target smoking colleagues, relatives and restaurant patrons. It spent two years reviewing an expert panel's findings and finally concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke exacerbates bronchitis, pneumonia and other ailments in children and kills 3,000 adults through lung cancer each year. The report, which had seemingly run afoul of political considerations within the agency, was immediately denounced by the tobacco industry...
...PART BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCE OF AIDS, IN PART because of breakdowns in public health services, the incidence of tuberculosis has jumped 25% since 1984, when 22,000 cases were documented in the U.S. Physicians from the American Lung Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend a series of more aggressive countermeasures to prevent a general outbreak of TB, some new strains of which are particularly virulent...