Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome - Famous Victims

Famous Victims

  • In 1963, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died of RDS two days after his premature birth at 34 weeks gestation.
  • In 1992, Freddie Highmore survived RDS after being born at 29 weeks gestation.

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or victims:

    “Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

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    —Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)