Word: pneumonia
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This is not unusual. Asthma is known to scientists as a great masquerader. According to doctors at the pediatric-care unit of the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in Gainesville, 25% of the patients referred to them had been previously misdiagnosed with pneumonia or bronchitis. One reason: primary-care physicians may not suspect asthma if they do not actually hear wheezing, which is more likely to occur at night than in a doctor's office. In many cases the symptoms are so subtle that they are dismissed as allergies...
...underwent risky, all-day surgery today in Virginia to stave off further damage to his spinal cord. The operation, which has triggered heart attacks in some patients, was expected to allow Reeve to be propped up in bed, to breathe more easily and to fight off recurrences of pneumonia. But the 42-year-old actor will likely remain on a respirator for life...
DIED. BERNARD CORNFELD, 67, financier; from pneumonia; in London. Cornfeld rose from the driver's seat of a Brooklyn cab to the helm of a financial empire. But his high-living, high-stakes universe evaporated in 1970 after his mutual-fund company went public, leading to a collapse that cost Cornfeld and his investors millions and landed the smooth-talking fallen star in prison. He was ultimately acquitted of embezzlement...
...like someone dying of pneumonia todaybecause they weren't treated with the rightantibiotics," he says...
MARIA LA BAJA: Preying on Victims Colombians are heartsick over the plight of nine-year-old Erika Delgado, the sole survivor of a plane crash that took the lives of 51 people, including her mother, father and younger brother, outside Cartagena on Jan. 11. Suffering from fractures and pneumonia, the grief-stricken child has begun to recall the painful details of the accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help...