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...that "companies that combine will be the survivors." GE chairman John Welch, worried about holding on to a division too small to compete in a shrinking market, decided to get out while the getting was good. "If you are No. 4, and No. 1 sneezes," said Welch, "you get pneumonia...
Barrett, who is currently sick with pneumonia but expects to take over his position as planned, considers the incoming Clinton administration an important factor in the committee's plans for education reform...
...only is pain management humane, but it also speeds recovery and saves money. When a patient is in such agony that he cannot move about in his bed, the risk of life-threatening blood clots increases. When he hurts too much to cough after chest surgery, the risk of pneumonia jumps...
...over the past few years. And in a sobering series of articles in the current Science magazine, researchers point out that the problem of drug resistance is not limited to a few germs but spans an entire spectrum of disease-causing microbes, including those responsible for gonorrhea, meningitis, streptococcal pneumonia and staphylococcus infections. "Bacteria are cleverer than men," says Dr. Harold Neu of Columbia University's medical school...
...shown symptoms. Such outbreaks could have serious consequences: recurrent middle-ear infections can impair hearing, and pneumococcus can also cause meningitis and bacteremia, an infection of the blood that may spread to the joints, heart and even the brain. In the Third World, pneumococcus is a leading cause of pneumonia...