Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulties of separating them were clear from X rays. The boys had separate brains, but they shared a major vein in the back of the head called the sagittal superior sinus, a large canal through which blood flows toward the heart. Past efforts to separate similarly joined twins had resulted in either death or brain damage. Indeed, one such attempt by doctors in Chicago in 1981 ended tragically with both children bleeding to death on the operating table. Theresia, 20, and Josef Binder, 36, searched in their own country and the U.S. for a medical team that could offer their...
...operation began as planned at 7:15 a.m. By 9 p.m., the skin and skull had been divided. "We have lift-off," announced Carson as the last of the bone came apart. But the job was more difficult than anticipated. The shared sinus and its surrounding tissue were twisted and corkscrewed, complicating the separation. At 11, circulation was halted, and the critical hour began. By 11:20, the last connection was severed, and the tables were swung apart. "It was a very moving moment," Rogers recalls. "Everyone was silent and astounded." Still, there was much to do before the clock...
...textbook on political-damage control requires the candidate's wife to fly immediately to comfort her beleaguered husband. But for three long days Lee Hart remained silent in the house in Colorado, as campaign officials relayed word that she was suffering from a sinus infection. Political insiders regarded that story with the same skepticism that Kremlinologists apply to news that the Soviet leader has a cold. But in this case the illness was genuine. Not only was the candidate's wife unable to fly, but her left eye was badly swollen. The eye was so inflamed that at one point...
...cocaine is easy to hide. It is generally snorted rather than smoked, and does not give off an odor as marijuana does. Users have devised ingenious ways of taking the drug right in front of their co-workers without being detected. Some, for example, buy squeeze-bottle medications for sinus congestion, empty out the medicine and refill the bottles with cocaine. Cocaine vaporizes at temperatures above 80 degrees , so merely carrying it in a pocket keeps the container close to normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees and the coke ready for sniffing...
...decision will cost Johnson & Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their production. In addition to Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson made and sold capsule forms of Sine-Aid, a remedy for sinus congestion, and Dimensyn, a medicine for the relief of menstrual pain. The capsule form of Tylenol amounted to about 30% of the pain reliever's estimated 1985 sales of $525 million. To make up for its loss, the company last week began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that Johnson & Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven...