Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last fall, she moved to England in hopes of obtaining a heart-lung transplant at one of the world's best clinics. She spent the year searching for a job in journalism and hoping to be placed on the exclusive list of those eligible to receive the vital and dangerous operation...
...make any model system you want," says Leder, including mice to study colon cancer, leukemia, lung cancer or any other form of the disease...
...according to a report issued last week by the National Cholesterol Education Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The NCEP's medical experts concluded that the best way to avoid heart trouble later in life is to take preventive steps early in childhood. The report urges that all children above age two follow the same low-cholesterol, low-fat diet that is recommended for adults. Fat should make up no more than 30% of daily calories. In American children, like adults, fat now accounts for about 36%. The NCEP also calls for blood cholesterol tests in children...
When Rose Cipollone was an impressionable 1940s teenager, a smoldering cigarette in the hand of a glamorous starlet seemed to sum up sophistication. Before she died of lung cancer in 1984, some 15,000 packs later, Cipollone and her husband filed suit against three cigarette manufacturers, claiming that intense advertising and industry health claims had drawn her into a deadly | nicotine habit. Last week the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. However the high court rules, the result will deeply affect the enormous tobacco industry...
...Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...