Word: lungingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After all, a face transplant, unlike a heart or lung transplant, is not a life-saving procedure. Since the benefit is not as great, the risk of complications looms larger. Surgery is just a first step. A person who receives a face transplant will need to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his or her life. Side effects from these medications may lead to diabetes, cancer and even death. Despite all that, the body may still reject the new face, leading to more and more complicated surgery...
...thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World Health Organization has predicted that one third of the 300 million young men in China will die prematurely of smoking-related ailments. Any measures to dissuade the estimated five million Chinese minors...
...cost, some MRI experts predict that will become less of an issue. "Right now many heart patients have to undergo a combination of tests that add up to more than the expense of one MRI scan," says Dr. Andrew Arai, a researcher at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., who is studying the use of cardiac MRI in the emergency room. If a single MRI could replace the need for lots of echocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations and nuclear perfusion scans, it might be worth the price...
When PETER JENNINGS told ABC World News Tonight viewers in April that he had lung cancer, he said he had not smoked in about 20 years, except for a while around Sept. 11. "I was weak," he admitted. It didn't show. Jennings, who died four months later at age 67, was at his best after the attacks, reminding Americans of a fact he had devoted his life to: that world news matters. He had become an ABC anchor at just 26, but realizing he was too green for the job, gave it up to be a foreign correspondent, reporting...
DIED. GENE MAUCH, 79, hot-tempered but shrewd baseball manager known as the Little General, who used statistics to match batters with pitchers long before such computer analyses became customary; of lung cancer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The most winning manager never to make it to the World Series, he came agonizingly close three times, with the Philadelphia Phillies and twice with the Los Angeles Angels, only to suffer wrenching season-end losses. "I've been disappointed," he once said, "but I've never disappointed myself...