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Since stepping down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) one month ago after a setback in his battle with prostate cancer, Jeremy R. Knowles’ condition has stabilized, according to his wife. He entered Massachusetts General Hospital in late April, suffering from pneumonia and sepsis. “Jeremy is no longer in critical condition, but is stable and doing well and hopes soon to be out of the Intensive Care Unit,” Knowles’s wife, Jane S. Knowles, said in a statement this week. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine?...
...International organizations such as UNICEF and USAID, as well as other foreign and local nonprofit organizations, have been working closely with health officials to assist in implementing the National Child Survival Program, which focuses on eradicating diarrhea-related diseases, promoting immunization and combating respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and bronchitis. And improvements in health services aimed at mothers also ensure that many more children grow up with their mothers on hand...
...only vascular condition in pregnancy to be more common among migraine sufferers. The results, presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, showed a link between migraine and everything from heart attack to preeclampsia. There was no association with non-vascular conditions, like pneumonia or post-partum infection. "This lends credibility to the vascular mechanism of migraines," says lead researcher Cheryl Bushnell, an assistant professor in neurology at Duke. It's also generally recognized that the pain of a migraine headache is caused by dilated blood vessels in the brain...
...true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former will save you a lot of anxiety, waiting-room time and money. They will treat the pneumonia or the backache themselves, instead of sending you to the pulmonary doc or orthopod...
...Thankfully, Robert Austrian was never one to accept the presumed wisdom of his colleagues. After World War II, when doctors insisted that penicillin and other new antibiotics obviated the need for a vaccine to combat illnesses like pneumonia, Austrian turned this theory on its head. Convinced that certain bacteria were resistant to antibiotics--and aware that pneumonia was still killing thousands of people annually--he led a groundbreaking 10-year study of the issue at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. By its culmination in 1962, Austrian had persuaded the medical community of the continued need for a pneumococcal vaccine...