Topic: Cystic Fibrosis
guardian.co.uk | 2008-10-30 16:18:30
<div><p>Romantic consumptive or someone with cystic fibrosis? Schick's portrait of Chopin. Photograph: Hulton Archive</p><p>Poor old Chopin. If it's not enough that he should be the consumptive emblem of a nation and its music, every detail of his life and his music fetishised into an icon ...
guardian.co.uk | 2008-10-30 16:10:45
<div><p>Scientists are locked in a battle with the Polish government over their request to test the heart of Fr&amp;eacute;d&amp;eacute;ric Chopin for evidence he suffered from cystic fibrosis. They believe the Polish composer was not a victim of tuberculosis, as commonly supposed, but died because he suffered ...
AP News | 2008-07-25 21:28:27
<div id="subtitle">Poland rejects proposed DNA testing of Chopin's heart to explore mystery of composer's death</div><div><p>Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39 ...
WENN | 2008-07-21 16:47:57
<div><p>LATEST: Shock jock HOWARD STERN's former radio sidekick KENNETH KEITH KALLENBACH's death was caused by complications from cystic fibrosis, according to a new medical examiner's report.</p><p> Kallenbach - described by Stern as the "ultimate airhead" - died in April (08) at the age of 39 at a ...
