NEWS
February 18, 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion In this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief, Didion chronicles the year following the death of her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on Dec. 30, 2003, while the couple's only daughter, Quintana, lay unconscious in a nearby hospital suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne's death propelled Didion into a state she calls "magical thinking."
NEWS
By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF and JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF,SUN REPORTER | April 11, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators studying whether the abortion pill RU-486 was responsible for the deaths of two women who took the drug ruled out one of the cases yesterday. The Food and Drug Administration did not indicate which of the deaths had been ruled out. Cindy Summers, a spokeswoman for RU-486 manufacturer Danco Laboratories, said it was a death that took place several weeks after the abortion. The FDA is continuing to investigate the cause of the other death, which came several days after RU-486 was administered.
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By Jonathan Bor and Jonathan Bor,SUN STAFF | April 2, 2005
Pope John Paul II's downward spiral yesterday was a classic example of what happens to a frail, elderly patient suffering from septic shock - a condition that remains maddeningly hard to cure, doctors said. "Sepsis is the beginning of a domino effect," said Dr. Hassan Makhzoumi, a pulmonary specialist at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson. The disease is the body's reaction to an infection that breaks out of an organ or tissue into the bloodstream. In the pope's case, the apparent cause was a urinary tract infection that doctors began treating Thursday with antibiotics.
NEWS
By Jonathan Lerner | September 10, 1998
MY FATHER HAS always had enormous energy. If he ever felt ill, you didn't know it. Twenty-five years after ending his career as a foreign service officer, he was enjoying vigorous retirement, a pillar of the Florida community where he lives.Then a bad infection -- one he might have avoided if he'd received an adequate warning from his doctor -- dramatically changed all that.It's a problem that affects scores of people annually -- those who, like my father, have had a joint or heart-valve replacement.
BUSINESS
By Liz Bowie and Liz Bowie,Staff Writer | July 27, 1992
Chincoteague, Va. -- Leon Rose's grin splits the darkness and he says: "Watch this." The nets on the Susan Dawn groan and a glistening bounty of horseshoe crabs spills onto the deck of his old wooden workboat. Under a full moon, the bellies of these prehistoric creatures shine like polished mahogany and their legs wriggle madly to escape.No wonder. Leon Rose is out for blood -- an ounce to be exact.But the crabs will return to the Atlantic in less than 24 hours, shortly after making a donation.
BUSINESS
By Liz Bowie and Liz Bowie,Staff Writer | May 20, 1992
Nova Pharmaceutical Corp. attempted to soothe disgruntled shareholders at its annual meeting yesterday with the news that the decade-long wait for a major new product could be coming to an end.The company said the first stages of clinical testing on a class of drugs aimed at treating septic shock and inflammatory bowel disease began two days ago. The initial tests are designed to determine whether the leumedins, or anti-inflammatory drugs, will be safe...