Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next move was potentially the most dangerous: if the clot had been as big as the end of a man's thumb, as some are, it could have caused a complete blockage of the great artery through which blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs. The result would have been a dramatic collapse of the patient and perhaps sudden death. Smaller clots usually produce only minor local lung damage...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...
...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...
...exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos was dangerous. Company doctors told ailing employees to stop smoking. When one protested that he smoked nothing but an occasional cigar, a Tyler plant manager told him he must be drinking too much milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever...
...workers are employed and another 800,000 have been. Among that million workers, a new official of HEW's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimates that there will be 3,000 excess deaths each year for the next 20 or 30 years from cancer of the lung and respiratory disease...