Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mothers routinely make sacrifices for their children, but what happened last week was unprecedented. In an extraordinary seven-hour operation, doctors at Stanford University Medical Center transferred part of a mother's lung to her dying 12-year-old daughter. The girl, born prematurely, had long suffered from severe scarring of the lung. She had perhaps a year to live. Dr. Vaughn Starnes, who performed the operation, says the mother, 46, should not notice the loss of one lobe of a lung. The lobe is expected to expand to fill the space in the daughter's chest created...
...pollution. More than 150 million Americans live in areas which fall below federal clean air standards, and the American Lung Association estimates that more than 100,000 people in this country die each year from dry sulfate air poisoning alone. President Bush introduced a new clean air bill last year to combat this problem; during the campaign he spoke of individuals' "right" to breathe clean air. But now Bush is threatening to veto this very bill, the first of its kind since 1977, because Congressional Democrats had the nerve to attach real enforcement mechanisms to Bush's platitudes...
...children of chest pains and shortness of breath. One of her daughters brought her to D.C. General Emergency Room, where she was asked to sit in the waiting area. Three hours later, she collapsed in front of the receptionist's desk with a blood clot in her lung, less than 50 feet from advanced resuscitation equipment. After 30 minutes of intensive treatment, physicians declared her dead...
...prevent that person from ever becoming ill. Ironically, one of the first consequences of a better understanding of genetics will be an emphasis on altering the environmental contribution to disease because that's a lot easier to change. If you know you are at high risk for lung cancer, your motivation to stop smoking will increase...
...asbestos victims, illness is not the only indignity they have suffered. Tens of thousands of them have also endured a seemingly endless wait for compensation from the companies that produced the mineral that has been found to cause lung cancer and other diseases. The most immediate crisis involves the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, formed in 1988 as the company emerged from bankruptcy reorganization. At the time, trust officials expected to handle 100,000 cases, with an average payment of $25,000 each, but so far, they have paid an average of $43,500 each on the first...