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...sickly; the doctors had told Teodora, a recent Mexican immigrant, that she must bring him back if unusual symptoms developed. Back to County-USC, that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected her son's swollen lymph nodes and scheduled a blood test, Teodora allowed that she knew enough of Los Angeles County's latest disaster--the fiscal one--to dread its consequences. "If the hospital weren't here," she said, "I don't know what I'd do. I don't know where...
HOSPITALIZED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 67, head of the Chicago Roman Catholic diocese; for the removal of malignant tumors in the liver and pancreas as well as a cancerous kidney and lymph node; in Maywood, Illinois. Bernardin faces extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments...
...years ago, the lymph nodes, where T cells come to maturity, were unveiled as a large reservoir of the virus, answering one of the researchers' questions. But then the question of how these cells fit into the slow and systematic destruction of the immune system was highlighted...
...this type of plague that initially broke out in India. Sufferers experienced the same swollen lymph nodes from which bubonic plague derives its name in Medieval French...
This blitz of intriguing, if often contradictory, speculation was interrupted briefly last Thursday by the news that the defendant was taken from his jail cell to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, suffering from swollen lymph nodes in his armpits and episodes of night sweats. Doctors will analyze the nodes for cancer, a disease that runs in the former football star's family. The results are expected early this week...