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...Gregory Dunne, also a writer, suddenly slumped over at the dinner table. He had died of a massive heart attack. They had been married a month shy of 40 years. Just five days earlier, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and septic shock; at the time of her father's death, she was in a coma...
...would be goofy indeed if a porn video could make Paris Hilton's career, while one grand-Oprah aria could torpedo Cruise's. But Hilton swims in less elevated waters--the septic tank--than he does. He's Tom Terrific, the very likable guy with the laser intensity and the prom-king smile. Through two busted marriages (with actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman) and questions about his commitment to Scientology (about which he's increasingly ardent--there was a Scientology tent on the War of the Worlds set), Cruise has frolicked in the clean mainstream. For ages. His claim...
...pope, who died at the age of 84 from septic shock and cardiocirculatory collapse, served the papacy for 27 years and was the first non-Italian pope elected in 455 years...
...been experimenting with another bacterium, salmonella, and another way of destroying a tumor from the inside out. Salmonella is a familiar but unwelcome interloper in kitchens and at picnics, thriving in uncooked meats and other food products such as eggs. Once in the blood, its surface coat can trigger septic shock, a hyperaggressive immune response that can lead to liver and kidney failure and a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Confined to a tumor, however, the bacterium could be a potent cancer killer. Like the measles virus, salmonella zeroes in naturally on tumor cells. "If an animal has a tumor...
...women died annually when illegally terminating their pregnancy in unsafe conditions. Willing to risk everything to end an unintended pregnancy, women sought out unskilled and unlicensed practitioners with dirty instruments and mutilating procedures. Women suffered innumerable consequences from back-alley abortions, including infections leading to pneumonia and septic shock, perforated internal organs and massive hemorrhaging resulting in infertility and death...