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...dawn of the 20th century, the roster of illnesses that spelled almost inevitable death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...
Welcome to the harrowing world of antibiotic resistance, where drugs that once conquered everything from pneumonia to tuberculosis are rapidly losing their punch. Chicken Cipro is only the latest example of how humans are burning their pharmacological bridges. Feed-lot operators are dosing their livestock with antibiotics to keep them healthy under stressful growing conditions. Parents are demanding the most powerful broad-spectrum agents--often by brand name--for their children's upper-respiratory infections. Consumers are snapping up cutting boards, dishwashing soap and baby toys laced with antibacterial compounds, hoping to make their homes perfectly sterile and safe...
DIED. DAN DECARLO, 82, Archie Comics cartoonist known for sketching curvy women; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N.Y. The creator of the characters Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, DeCarlo worked for the comics publisher for more than 40 years...
Edward Willet Wagner ’49, longtime Harvard professor and founder of the Korean Institute in 1981, died Dec. 7 of pneumonia and other complications from Alzheimer’s disease in Concord, Mass...
...Berlin was a Jew whose love for America included a love for two gentile women: his wives. First Dorothy Goetz, the sister of songwriter Ray Goetz. Her marriage to Berlin was brief: she died of pneumonia barely five months past her wedding day. The song he wrote to commemorate her, "When I Lost You," became his second #1 hit. (Berlin couldn't help turning grief into greenbacks...