Word: pneumonia
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...greater medical transparency this month when they launched a new website hospitalcompare.hhs.gov that allows consumers to assess the care at any of nearly 4,200 hospitals across the U.S. for three conditions: heart attack, heart failure (a progressive weakening of the cardiac muscle's ability to pump blood) and pneumonia. The site is easy to use and is based on nationally accepted standards of care--although there are a few wrinkles you should know about...
...pneumoniae causes a number of childhood infections, ranging from mild, such as ear infections and bronchitis, to more severe, such as pneumonia and meningitis, which are less frequent, according to Huang...
DIED. ROBERT CREELEY, 78, among the most influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...
...earlier, after another brother had been shot and killed. "We all said, 'Don't put us on any life support,'" says Keith Tighe, 41. "Jimmy said it too." Still, it has taken time for the Tighes to act, as is often the case. Only in February, after Jimmy developed pneumonia, did the brothers and their father move him into a hospice and start the procedural steps required by the center before a feeding tube can be removed. In the meantime, the Tighes visit Jimmy every...
DIED. WALTER HOPPS, 72, visionary museum curator and influential advocate of American art, particularly the Los Angeles avant garde; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. The first to create a museum exhibition for Frank Stella and a retrospective of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, Hopps opened the Ferus Gallery with artist Ed Kienholz in 1957, which became a pre-eminent launching pad for such artists as Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin...