Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Europeans generally deny that, as the old saw has it, their economies develop pneumonia whenever America sneezes. Still, political leaders are quick to point a finger abroad when it suits them. Just as some American politicians blame Japan for the recession, the U.S. is a popular whipping boy in Europe. French President Francois Mitterrand finds his popularity plunging along with his economy. On national television last month, he claimed the country had been growing until "suddenly the bad news arrived, mostly from...
...paper published this year, Avery and other researchers found that surfactant is an effective vehicle for delivery of drugs into the lungs of hamsters. One of the drugs tested, pentamidine, may be of use in combatting a form of pneumonia which often proves deadly to AIDS patients...
...crime is only a small part of the story. Study after study shows that blacks are just not as healthy as whites or other racial groups -- at any age. Black toddlers are three times as likely as white youngsters to die from meningitis, pneumonia or influenza. Black men are three times as likely to contract AIDS, and 50% more likely to die from a heart attack, even if they make it to a hospital. Death from stroke is five times as common in African Americans of both sexes between the ages of 35 and 55. Advanced kidney disease...
With nowhere else to go, many African Americans rely on the local emergency room for all their medical needs. "The emergency room may treat a patient's pneumonia, but it won't do a Pap smear or screen a woman for breast cancer," says Dr. Marc Rivo, director of the division of medicine at the Department of Health and Human Services. Without early detection, more than half of black women with breast cancer admitted to Harlem Hospital are already incurable, in contrast to 8% of whites at a nearby facility...
...regardless of income, blacks are half as likely as whites to receive bypass operations for their heart problems. Another investigation revealed that among patients undergoing dialysis for kidney disease, whites are 33% more likely to get a kidney transplant. A third study showed that blacks who were hospitalized for pneumonia received less-intensive treatment than whites...