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...advent of penicillin drugs in the early 1940s ushered in a triumphant era of medicine. With stunning speed, pharmaceutical chemists armed doctors with one antibiotic after another, giving them an arsenal of magic bullets to knock out the germs that cause everything from pneumonia to gonorrhea. It was only a matter of time, it seemed, before all infectious diseases would be conquered...
...with the feds centers on the mechanism by which Oregon proposed to offset the added cost of its expanded coverage: its now famous rationing system. At the heart of the system is a list of 709 medical conditions ranked in order of seriousness and responsiveness to treatment, from bacterial pneumonia (1) to anencephaly (709). The legislature determined how much the state could afford and then drew a line at item 587 (inflammation of the esophagus). Conditions above the line would be covered for everybody; those below would get no coverage...
...G.O.P. nomination time in August, he will be the fifth oldest of the 40 men who have been U.S. Presidents, passing the luckless William Henry Harrison, who was 68 when he got chilled at his Inauguration, caught pneumonia and expired after only 31 days on the job. Some said he deserved it: his speech ran an hour and 45 minutes...
...long hours that Brown required of his staffers also took their toll. Carl Werthman, a special assistant to Brown, had a heart attack. Tom Hickey, who had been Pat Brown's travel secretary for two years, developed pneumonia and hepatitis after less than six months as an aide to the younger Brown. David Jensen, a press aide, developed an ulcer...
Brianna Oas has never drawn an easy breath. When she was a baby, her tiny chest convulsed at the slightest irritation. Instead of laughing, she would cough; instead of crying, gag. She succumbed to an endless string of , respiratory infections -- pneumonia, a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia again -- that ordinary antibiotics seemed powerless to curb. Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that...