Word: lungfuls
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...cells whose telomeres were closer in length to those of her biological mother than to those of a baby lamb. We will never know, though, whether her shortened telomeres would have shortened her life. In 2003 Wilmut and his team decided to put Dolly to sleep after she developed lung cancer caused by a viral infection common among sheep. An autopsy revealed that she was otherwise normal...
...Estimated number of U.S. adults who died in 2005 of heart or lung disease associated with inhaling secondhand smoke, according to the Surgeon General...
...quarter of a century ago, the world learned about the AIDS epidemic because a health bureaucrat noticed an uptick in prescriptions for treatment of a rare pneumonia. In 1912--more than a half-century before the Surgeon General's report--a New York physician chronicled "a decided increase" in lung cancer, which was considered rare at the time, and suggested that cigarettes might be the cause...
...later moved to the New England Conservatory, where he became the Conservatory’s first non-musician president in 2000. He was planning on stepping down at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year due to chronic lung disease...
...full codes going on in the same smallish room. The medical people had squeezed in; there was a knot of them around each patient, hands on chins or EKG strips. We were working away but could only get their pressures up a little. They were both doing well lung-wise. The old man was completely out and intubated now; the nurse was breathing and reacted weakly when needles were inserted ,but that's all. There was a moment of stability and everyone seemed to look up at everyone else - the surgeons looked at the medical guys, the medical guys looked...