Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gregory's heart, believes it is the first time this delicate operation had been done with the heart in plain view and "dry," though still beating because its muscle was getting a full blood supply. Gregory stood the operation well but died a few days later of pneumonia (to which children with such heart defects are especially liable...
European businessmen like to say that "if the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia...
...mother, Idaho-born Mrs. Maggie Smith Webb, was divorced shortly after he was born. She took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs...
Recessive Gene. After Dr. Andersen defined cystic fibrosis, doctors saw that previously they had been dismissing the lung symptoms as pneumonia, and confusing the intestinal upset with something else-celiac disease. Gradually, they learned that cystic fibrosis is by no means rare; by current estimates, one child in 600 is affected. It is inherited and may strike all the children in a susceptible family, or only one in ten, but the average is one in four...
Clearing the Chest. Until recently, the outlook was bleak indeed for all these youngsters. They were spindle-limbed and undernourished, no matter how much they ate. and they were always coming down with bronchitis or pneumonia. As doctors were learning to treat the digestive troubles and the lung disorders in turn, new drugs appeared to help them, and now the outlook for the little patients is more hopeful...