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...according to last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Known to doctors as "opportunistic diseases," they strike when the body's natural immunological defenses are down. Previously they were seen mainly in organ-transplant and cancer patients. Among such medical opportunists are pneumocystic pneumonia, a parasitic lung infection that has killed 60% of its victims, and herpes simplex and cytomegalovirus (CMV), two commonplace microorganisms that are generally brushed off by healthy people...
...polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
...that launched Roberts, now 63, to fame 30 years ago. But, insists Orthopedic Surgeon James Winslow, the facility's chief executive officer: "What we're doing here is not a substitute for good medicine. We'll stop the bleeding or patch the air leak in the lung and pray at the same time." No medical procedures are expressly forbidden, but abortions will not be performed for birth control. The facility will draw its patients primarily from Roberts' 3 million followers or "partners," half of whom donated all the money needed for construction...
...Americans each year who survive a heart attack, about 10% will die within a year, often from a second attack. But last week heart patients had cause for encouragement. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute announced that it was calling an early halt to a large-scale study because the drug being tested was so successful in reducing deaths in heart attack victims. Says NHLBl's associate director, Dr. William Friedewald: "The regular use of propranolol has the potential for saving at least 6,500 lives in the United States alone each year...
...John D. Spengler, in a paper presented at the symposium, found no correlation between measured nitrogen dioxide levels and lung function. "This is not conclusive, as it was based on a small sample size," Sexton said, adding also that it did not preclude the possibility that short-term, "peak exposures" to the gas might be harmful...