If you have a chronic cough that may be due to asthma, ask your doctor to consider testing or treating. But if asthma is not the answer, ask him to think about the third leading cause of the cough that lingers. 3. Gastroesophageal reflux disease. hear you coffin â the cough is actually a vital player in the body's defense against disease. Coughing expels mucus, microbes, and foreign particles from the respiratory tract, protecting the lungs from infection and inflammation.
(MoneyWatch) He can walk early, but not that early. Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling succeeded in getting his prison sentence reduced by 10 years as part of a court-ordered reduction. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake of the Southern District of Texas announced at a hearing in Houston today that Skilling will serve 14 years.
Having lived in prison for 63 yearsâhis entire adult lifeâand having no family, he believed that he would not make it on the outside. He chose to remain in prison for almost six more years. Release. On May 7, 1980, Geidel left Fishkill, having served the longest prison sentence in United States history. No publicity please, Geidel said with a smile to reporters as he was leaving the facility. He is believed to have lived out the remainder of his days in a Beacon, Dutchess County nursing home, before dying aged 93.