Word: lungfuls
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DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS's Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award--winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Sesame Street?"); of lung cancer; in New York City...
...walks to and from the train each day, Skinner says people should appreciate the fact that the EPA was responsive to a local complaint and acted quickly to bring the company's attention to what could be a health risk to children, the elderly and people with heart and lung diseases...
...Still, the results of these studies, which were sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cannot be ignored, or easily dismissed. This is by far the largest, most scientifically rigorous attempt ever to test a low-fat diet-defined as 20% or less of total calories coming from fat. Researchers randomly divided the participants into two groups, worked hard to get one group to cut its fat intake and then compared the results for each of them for the next several years...
...clinics south of the border. As early as 1963, the Hoxsey Clinic had opened in Tijuana with its motto ?run by Americans, for Americans.? And then in 1980, a dying and seemingly desperate Steve McQueen rode off into the sunset in Mexico while seeking laetrile treatments to cure his lung cancer. There may have been hundreds of alternative health clinics at that time. Today, there are only a few dozen...
...King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke. Her cancerous condition had not been previously made public, and she was diagnosed last fall, according to family friends. That condition, deemed inoperable by doctors consulted in the United States, led King's family to check her into an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico on January 26 under an assumed name. No funeral or memorial arrangements had been announced, as King's family escorted her body back to Atlanta early...