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...years earlier he had suffered a heart attack and received a pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April 3 at his Louisville, Ky., home. He was 72.The man who went by “Barry Jr.” made his name as a hard-nosed newspaper publisher, a generous philanthropist, and a pioneer in journalistic ethics. But after his family?...
HIGH HOPES Pneumonia ended Ali Bushnaq's quest to be the first Palestinian up the mountain. But his teammates on the Everest Peace Project, including two Israelis, made...
...state average, and the highest scoring hospitals in the country. (Although provision of data is voluntary, the 2004 Medicare reform act gives monetary incentives for hospitals that report to the service.) The site, launched in April last year, currently only measures care given to heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical patients. It also has a handy checklist of questions to ask hospitals, and your doctor, before making a decision...
...trust computers too much: they seem objective and infallible, but if the wrong information is entered in the first place, or the bar-coded wristband is put on the wrong patient, it can be harder to prevent mistakes down the line. In one case study, a patient with pneumonia had his wristband mixed up with a diabetic patient and came very close to being given a fatal dose of insulin...
Caspar W. Weinberger ’38, a former Crimson president who served as secretary of defense to President Reagan and oversaw the nation’s massive peacetime defense buildup in the Cold War’s twilight years, died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney ailments. He was 88.Weinberger, who died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with his wife of 63 years, Jane, by his side, had served as chairman of Forbes Inc. until his death.A major force in California’s Republican Party during the 1960s, Weinberger held three major posts in Washington the following...