Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just unpleasant; it can be harmful as well, keeping a patient from taking deep breaths or coughing--things they need to do. Pain can also keep people bedridden, impeding their recovery. "Our major aim is to get people up quickly," Berde says. "They're less likely to develop pneumonia, lose muscle mass and have trouble sleeping." Ambulatory adults are also less prone to blood clots, heart attacks and mental confusion...
...that is about one-tenth of an inch long and is ubiquitous in certain woodlands. Once inside the body, the kala-azar protozoan invades and weakens the immune system, causing fever, weight loss, anemia and enlargement of the spleen. If the disease is untreated, a secondary infection, such as pneumonia or malaria, usually brings painful death...
...bodies stunted, their arms like twigs, folds of skin hanging from rib cages, eyes vacant and staring with hunger. Orphanages are filling up with children whose families can no longer feed them; unwanted newborns never leave the hospital of their birth. The little ones are dangerously vulnerable to diarrhea, pneumonia, measles. Sometimes elderly women collapse, exhausted, by the roadside. Many of the aged are too weak to leave home...
TAKE ME TO A TEACHING HOSPITAL For many conditions that require hospitalization--heart attack, stroke, pneumonia--your chances of dying are nearly 20% higher in a nonteaching hospital than in a teaching institution...
...smoking sets you apart--literally. At restaurants we are seated back by the kitchen door, where we dine to the music of busboys clattering silverware into milky dishwater. At work we smoke huddled in the rain and snow, risking pneumonia for (we are told) the sake of the public health. The unintended consequence of each new restriction has been to make smoking a badge of honor, a sign of one's refusal to give in. And now, with last week's agreement--with this consensus arrived at by America's cynics and pols and buttinskies--the attractions of smoking...