Word: lungfuls
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...bore before I had kids. Now if my child so much as clears her throat, it's straight to the Cystic Fibrosis section of the "Mother's Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax...
DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, sultry German singer and film star billed in the U.S. as the "thinking man's Marlene Dietrich"; of a lung infection; in Berlin. The diva who scandalized church officials with a fleeting nude scene in the 1951 German film The Sinner was best known in the U.S. for her role as Countess Liz in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck...
...Caribbean island of Mustique, where she had a house - and not enough time on her public duties. To be fair, her health was shaky - but even this was seen as partly self-inflicted. She had hepatitis in 1978 and bronchitis in 1981, and a piece of a lung was removed for fear of cancer in 1985. The biopsy proved negative, and she quit smoking - only to take up her famous, long black cigarette holder again three months later. After being hospitalized with pneumonia in 1993, she finally kicked the habit...
...Serbia or stay and defend ourselves," he says. "We decided to stay. We know the Albanians. They are prone to terrorism. We have to protect ourselves." Down the corridor, in an office that boasts one of the biggest security details in the city, hospital director Milan Ivanovic, a lung specialist who is also one of the city's most prominent hard-liners, vowed that Mitrovica's Serbs would give no ground. "The only solution is ethnic separation," he says. "Albanians have only one goal: to expand their state by fascist means...
Researchers are heartened by their preliminary success with a more complicated regimen, in which inoculations are custom-made from--and for--each patient. Early in 2001, scientists from Stanford University reported some shrinkage of advanced colon or lung tumors in half of a dozen patients. The vaccines they used were made of dendritic cells harvested from the patients themselves and mixed with a protein found on colon and lung tumors. These were then put back into the patients. "Our hope is to make these vaccines more potent and to try them in earlier-stage disease, possibly even using them...