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...escape the demons of its post-exam funk. Despite its poor finish, the Crimson finished third in the ECAC, earning Harvard home ice in the first round. It will also be playing without sophomore forward Dennis Packard, who’s been sidelined with a bout of pneumonia...
...kids. Now if my child so much as clears her throat, it's straight to the Cystic Fibrosis section of the "Mother's Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax. She didn't have...
With co-captain Justin Denham, one of the team’s top offensive threats, sidelined with back problems and Coach Tom Wilson recovering from a bout of pneumonia that left him hospitalized on Thursday, the Crimson departed for its New York road trip already at a disadvantage...
...hepatitis in 1978 and bronchitis in 1981, and a piece of a lung was removed for fear of cancer in 1985. The biopsy proved negative, and she quit smoking - only to take up her famous, long black cigarette holder again three months later. After being hospitalized with pneumonia in 1993, she finally kicked the habit...
Computed tomography is an invaluable tool for doctors, giving them an inside view of the body that can help spot appendicitis as well as cancer, pneumonia and other dangerous diseases before they become untreatable. But young children, whose growing cells are still dividing rapidly, may be at higher risk of developing brain cancer when exposed to the radiation of C.T. scans, according to a new study. The risk is small, but it can be reduced even further if technicians lower the dose for kids...