Word: pneumonia
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Brudnoy, who received his masters degree from Harvard, also battled pneumonia and cardiomyopathy and at one point lost the ability to walk...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...
...they had to wait for his lungs to clear. The bottom part of both lungs had begun to fill with fluid. In the past, doctors had no way of removing that fluid, and the patient would die of pneumonia. "They clear the lungs through repeated suctioning," says Reeve. "They stick a tube right down into your lungs and pull out the liquid. You can't feel down to your lungs, but you can feel the tube go down your throat...
John Rife, 54, of Waimanalo, Hawaii, was getting clobbered by everything from virulent pneumonia to malignant lymphoma. His doctors started him on three anti-HIV drugs. Within a month, his devastated immune system showed signs of recovering, the cancer had vanished and the level of HIV in his blood was so low it was undetectable...
...addition, they found that for treatable diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia or hypertension, the mortality rate was higher in states where the income gap was wider...