Word: sickest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...door on a man who ran out of medicine for his kidney transplant. Very soon his body is going to go into rejection." Henderson went in with New Orleans police, and when people saw him in scrubs, they surged at him from every side. He tried to tend the sickest and the babies first. "The crowds here have gotten a bad rap. There are not many human beings you could cram into a building with 10,000 others, in 105 heat, that wouldn't get just a little pissed off." He tried to get them settled and asked them...
...Murphy said yesterday that although the patients on the waiting list were “the sickest patients,” many could have lived longer had they received treatment in March...
...Tara probably has the sickest shot I’ve ever seen,” said Curtis. “She is so strong that she can shoot from as far back as the guys. She has a knack for finding the goal like no one I’ve ever seen...
...broad use. The CardioWest, which is surgically implanted in the chest, fills in for the heart's pumping chambers, shunting blood throughout the body. But because it remains connected to a power console outside the chest, the device is only a temporary fix, intended to buy time for the sickest patients while they wait for a heart transplant. Still, it has proved effective. Patients put on CardioWest were more than twice as likely to survive for a year, increasing their chance of finding a suitable donor heart. Doctors are testing a fully implantable artificial heart called the AbioCor...
...into something unheard of in the country's clubby and consensus-driven banking community: a hostile takeover bid. The combatants are Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Japan's second- and third-largest banks, respectively. They are vying to merge with UFJ Holdings, the sickest and smallest of the country's Big Four banks, in a bidding war that highlights the degree to which government reform and revived economic vibrancy have unleashed a fresh wave of market competition in this traditionally moribund industry. Many observers say the tussle may even be a harbinger...