Word: lungfuls
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...HOSPITALIZED. DIEGO MARADONA, 43, legendary soccer player who led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup championship, with heart and lung problems; in Buenos Aires. Maradona, who survived a heart attack in 2000, fell ill after watching his former club play and was placed in intensive care, where his condition improved during the week. Maradona is best known for scoring two goals?one with his hand?to defeat England in 1986, but his brilliance waned due to cocaine abuse and he retired in 1997. Argentine doctors denied that his hospitalization was drug related...
...help. Three years ago, a study sponsored by the National Eye Institute showed that a high-dose regimen of vitamins (including C, E and beta-carotene) plus zinc was moderately successful for intermediate cases of AMD. (Smokers should not take beta-carotene, as it may increase their risk of lung cancer.) Most important of all are regular visits to an eye doctor, who can monitor the risk of AMD as well as other more readily treatable causes of blindness, like cataracts and glaucoma...
...Creek is an extreme case. But like Tolstoy's unhappy families, every Superfund site is tragic and contentious in its own way. In Libby, Mont., a massive mine blanketed the town with asbestos dust, killing at least 215 people and sickening 1,100 more with cancer and lung disease--yet cleanup funds have been cut so sharply that it could take 10 to 15 years to finish the job. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, miners dumped 60 million tons of toxic metals into waterways, but state officials are fighting a Superfund cleanup, fearing a stigma that might hurt tourism...
...best way to stop this vicious circle is to quit smoking. "If people stop smoking early on," says Petty, "their lung function actually goes up and stays up for five years." That's a lot easier said than done, considering how addictive tobacco is--and it's not an option for the 15% of COPD victims who don't smoke. But even for nonsmokers, it's important to identify the disease as early as possible as that's when drugs are most effective. And because people with COPD are especially prone to lung infection, they need to be vigilant about...
SHORT OF BREATH: The "other" lung disease is far more common than cancer--and preventable...