Word: pneumonia
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Joe DiMaggio will be hospitalized for three more weeks with pneumonia and a lung infection even though his lawyer said yesterday he had improved from earlier this month when "we were fearful for his life...
...Look, he will be 84 next month and he has pneumonia," he said. "It was very, very serious. We were fearful for his life...
After two weeks the disease causes violent coughing, and if still untreated, can lead to such complications as brain damage, convulsions and pneumonia...
DIED. MAYNARD PARKER, 58, editor of Newsweek; of pneumonia that he contracted after treatment for leukemia; in New York City. A distinguished foreign correspondent and hard-driving journalist, he spent 31 years at Newsweek, the last seven as its top editor (see Eulogy, below...
...vaccination is a great idea, even if your memory of freshman English is receding as fast as your hairline. Hepatitis B strikes more than 200,000 Americans each year and kills 6,000, making it the third most deadly vaccine-preventable disease in the U.S., after flu and pneumonia. There are, of course, other viruses that take a toll on the liver. But hepatitis A, which is transmitted via contaminated water and food (think raw oysters and salad bars), doesn't usually cause permanent damage. And there is as yet no vaccine for hepatitis C, which is transmitted during sexual...