Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
... the procedure is safe and effective, and improves lung function in some children who failed to respond to...g the pressure and oxygen concentration inside the lung in an effort to force more oxygen into the blood stream -- can cause permanent lung damage and resul...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...el is used for the treatment ofovarian, breast and lung cancer. The study was funded partially by a grant from the National Institutes ofHealth. Safran and colleagues recently presented their findings to researchersat Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York and MD Anderson Cancer Centerin Houston....Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
Hopkins scientists studying lung damage from cystic fibrosis (CF) have found a natural "bug spray" that lung cells "squirt" on attacking bacteria. The "spray", an antimicrobial compound researchers call h...Medicare Approves UM Medical Center For Lung Transplants
... of Maryland Medical Center as a Medicare-approved lung transplantcenter, which means that elderly patient...d Medical Center becomes the onlyMedicare-approved lung transplant center between Philadelphia and Durham, NC. Itis the 24th in the nation. The designation ...Penn Researchers Initiate Ground-Breaking New Trials To Treat
...and/or mesothelioma -- cancer of the lining of the lung --who will not benefit from surgical or other conventionaltreatments, typically because of the advanced degree of cancerspread, the nature of the cancer, or the location of canceroustissue. The integration of photodynamic therapy in the field ofthor......at Duke University Medical Center haveidentified a lung condition that if not treated promptly can limit t...hemotherapeutic agents cause subtleinjuries to the lung tissue, and as the patient's immune system recovers afterthe bone marrow transplant, increasing numb...Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...sed to radon appear to be at even greater risk for lung cancer, because the effects of smoking and radon a.... Indoor radon contributes to about 12 percent of lung cancer deaths each year in the United States. The report, Health Effects of Exposure ...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...rovingchildren's -- and later adults' -- heart and lung health. Six hundredmiddle-school students, ages 11 to 14, from five rural N.C. schools in threecounties participated in the evaluation announced today. Subjects were divided into four groups. During the 1995-96 school yearthey received both p......n cause serious long-term problems such as chronic lung disease,neonatologists try to wean infants from ve...ndentpremature infants who were developing chronic lung disease at one month of age,recently they have been used much earlier in an attempt to prevent chron......plus carboplatin in thetreatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). These data were presented hereat ...st cancer combined. At this time, over halfof the lung cancer cases in the United States are in men, but the number ofwomen diagnosed each year is increasi...Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Study Of Tumor Suppressor Proteins
...tribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....Prevalence Of Silicosis Studied In Surface Coal Miners
...osis is a chronic, incurable and potentially fatal lung diseasecaused by occupational exposure to inhaled silica dust. It is estimated thereare about 3,300 surface miners of bituminous coal in western Pennsylvania. Thisresearch evaluated 667 surface miners who volunteered for the study. Each minerwas give...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...lmost uniquely found in cancersof the brain, skin, lung and breast. Tenascin is found around cancer cells andtumor blood vessels, where antibodies can bind firmly to it to deliver theircancer-killing payload. "We found that the 81C6 treatments delivered a very high radiation doseto the margins of ...Nitrosamines Play Important Role In Cancer Linked To Smoking
...accoand tobacco smoke have been strongly linked to lung cancer formation, saysStephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., of...trengthens the argument that passivesmoking causes lung cancer. By developing the ways in which cancer is formed by cancer-specific nitrosaminesin animal mo...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
...d medical treatments, primarily the development of lung surfactant, are twice as likely to repeat a grade ...maturity. A neonatologist at Children's developed lung surfactant and physicians in Buffalo have used it since the early 1980s. Children in the current st...Lupus Foundation Of America Awards Summer Internship To Student Working At Wistar Institute
...tributeto the development of diseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar isa National Cancer Institute Cancer Center.......Children with less than a 15 percentimprovement in lung function following a "burst" of inhaled steroids--high dosesover seven days--were considered steroid resistant. "Twenty-five percent of the kids admitted to National Jewish havesteroid-resistant asthma, which is much greater than anyone thought," D...Cancer Patients From Deprived Areas of South East England Aren't Receiving Optimum Treatment
...and emergency admission for cancers of colorectum, lung and breast in south east England: ecological study...ffluent areas. They also found that patients with lung or breast cancers from deprived areas were less likely to receive surgical treatment. For most can...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...odest improvements of patients with non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC), which accounts for approximately 70 percent of all lung cancers, theoverall mortality rate for lung cancer patients is unacceptably high, Jablonssays. Beca...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...th Care,patients must have advanced non-small cell lung cancer, a recurrence of thedisease following surgery or radiation therapy, and have had no previouschemotherapy treatments. Patients may experience side effects related to the MMPI including fatigue,joint stiffness, joint swelling, and, in a few pa...