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Arthur T. von Mehren ’42, a trailblazer in the study of international law who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, died of pneumonia on Jan. 16. He was 83. “He was essentially a Harvard lifer,” said his son Peter A. von Mehren ’77. “He arrived at Harvard in 1939 when he was 17 years old and spent the rest of his life there. He devoted his entire life to being a scholar in the Harvard community.” Von Mehren grew...
DIED. FRANKLIN COVER, 77, longtime character actor best known for his role as Tom Willis in The Jeffersons, the white half of TV's first interracial couple; of pneumonia; in Englewood...
...told us if we had waited one more day, he would have been taken home in a body bag.? Ferguson says doctors told her a dirty needle was the cause. ?My father will never be the same. The infection has caused him to have infections which led to double pneumonia, bone infection and congestive heart failure.? Having spent almost all of his life savings, George Ott had to live with his daughter until he went into the hospital for open heart surgery. Ironically, her father?s cancer is now in spontaneous remission. (Dr. Kurt Donsbach, the founder of Hospital Santa...
Just by listening through a stethoscope to thesounds inside your chest, a well-practiced doctor can tell whether a valve in your heart is leaky, you have a touch of pneumonia in your lungs or your heart isn't pumping as much blood as your body needs. In many cases, a subtle change in the pattern of bodily noises can alert your physician to problems long before symptoms appear. Unfortunately, the art of auscultation, the technical term for listening to those sounds, is slowly dying. Seasoned physicians complain that their younger colleagues are simply more comfortable ordering high-tech...
Highlighting the actions of Bonoand the Gateses brings hope to solving the global health crisis. Having practiced medicine for almost 50 years, mostly in France, I recently returned from a teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. There I was appalled to see patients with acute pneumonia sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. ALBERT FOURNIER Amiens, France