Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...rm. During speech production, air passes from the lungs through theglottis, an opening in the vocal cords, then is shaped into sounds byparts of the vocal tract, such as the teeth, tongue and lips. If theglottis stays open, the result is unvoiced sounds like "p" and "t." Ifit opens and closes periodically...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...ofsurfactant therapy, a liquid that allows babies' lungs to inflate. Afterthe Food and Drug Administration ...lungs to make surfactant, which is produced in the lungs of a fetusstarting in the last trimester and continuing until birth. Prematureinfants, those who wei...Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
... death in premature infants, develops because the lungs of these tiny babies have yet to secrete surfactan...bron into the baby's lungs. The liquid allows the lungs to inflate with less pressure than air, and permits oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass through the ai...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
...e every year. "People have always thought that the lungs only attacked infections via the classical immune system--B cells, T cells and other immune cells," says Pete Pedersen, Ph.D., Hopkins professor of biological chemistry. "But lung cells apparently have their own first-line defense mechanism--they s......am followed 45 women and found side effects to the lungs thatwere different and less severe than any report...f chemotherapy arethe negative side effects to the lungs and other tissues." The researchers believe that the chemotherapeutic agents cause sub...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
..., is approved to clear blood clots in theheart and lungs and is often used by physicians to treat bloodclots in the legs. The overall cost of surgery and the cost ofthe medication are about the same, says Ouriel, noting that atypical supply of the drug for one patient costs the hospitalabout $3,500. "......ause it improvesthe function of premature infants' lungs so that they get off the ventilatorearlier. Although steroids have been used to treat ventilator-dependentpremature infants who were developing chronic lung disease at one month of age,recently they have been used much earlier in an attempt to preve...... MAOinhibition. Ulus then confirmed this action in lungs and other tissues in rats. Maher has no commercial associations related to fenfluramines orphentermine. Ulus has no commercial associations. Redux was licensed to severalcompanies, including Interneuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Lexington, Mas...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...an DNA. When the investigators later examined the lungs ofthe mice, they found that the tumors were widespread in those who had receivedthe mouse DNA and could not detect an immune response. However, the tumors had regressed by 86 percent in the mice injected withhuman DNA and the researchers found a ma...University Of Florida Researchers Hope To Ease Asthma Pains And Provide A Sigh Of Relief
...deas ofhow the drug fits the receptor found in the lungs of asthma sufferers. "When our drug molecule sticks to the receptor, it is likely that thereceptor changes shape," Richards said. "This change in molecular shapetriggers a series of chemical processes in the lung cell that ultimatelylead to th...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
...lining lung capacity in 22 weeks. The capacity of lungs to absorb oxygen normally declines an average of 1 percent a year after age 40; those in their 70s recaptured the lung capacity they'd had in their 50s. A 12-week weight resistance program that more than doubled the leg musclestrength of some part...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...nal sarcomas and breast cancers had spread intheir lungs showed no evidence of disease after treatment with the dendriticcell vaccine in combination with interleukin-2. The other 40 percent of micetreated with the vaccine/IL-2 combination had fewer than 10 nodules compared togreater than 250 nodules in co...Low-Tech Treatment Proves A Life-Saver In Research Breakthrough
...ywith a mechanical ventilator. Excess fluid in the lungs displaces oxygen andleads to respiratory failure, Matthay said. "This finding will save thousands of lives each year," said Claude Lenfant, M.D.,director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, whichfunded the large-scale study. "......s believe IVIGincreases steroid sensitivity of the lungs to steroids, in part, by reducinglung inflammation. "We saw patients whose asthma does very poorly and who needed high dosesof steroids to control the disease," said Erwin Gelfand, M.D., a pediatricimmunology and asthma specialist and chair of the De...MRI Images Using Laser-Polarized Xenon
...polarized xenon in tissue, blood and gaswithin the lungs is significant, according to Swanson. It allows simultaneousmeasurement of lung ventilation and perfusion, which is not possible withconventional MRI. "The ability to compare the gas or ventilation image with theblood or perfusion image could help ......ticularly encouraging forthe recipients of hearts, lungs and combined kidney and pancreas, reports AbdulRao, M.D., D.Phil., assistant professor of surgery and pathology and director,section of cellular transplantation. In addition, the outcomes for livertransplant patients suggest that some patients can b......spect to the pattern of precancerous lesions inthe lungs of current and former smokers. Dr. Adi Gazdar, UT Southwestern professor of pathology, Dr. Stephen Lam andcolleagues in Canada and other investigators at the National Cancer Institute inBethesda, Md., have published the first study that analyzes the ......gery. More than 25 percent of all patients needing lungs die waiting, according tofigures from the United N...t for more than a third of allthose needing double lungs and about 15 percent of those needing hearts andlungs. CF is the most common fatal genetic disease ......ts are particularly significant because hearts and lungs are usuallymore prone to rejection than other organs. Their cell composition containsfewer donor immune system cells that serve as natural defenses against an attackby the recipient's immune system; donor bone marrow seems to enhance the immunecapab......s a significant risk associated with transplanting lungs frommale donors into female recipients, according ...ver transplantation, said Dr. Keith C. Meyer. "The lungs are much moreprone to injury than kidneys and livers," he noted. "Unlike kidneys and livers,with lun...