Weightlifting increases pressure within the eye
...[chest] pressure caused by the air retained in the lungs when the subjects held their breath during intraocular pressure measurement," the authors write. The authors note that a certain type of glaucoma (normal-tension glaucoma) is more common in individuals who are subjected to frequent changes in eye pr...Live H5N1 avian flu virus vaccines show protection in animal studies
...5N1 viruses have been shown to replicate in animal lungs and brains, the researchers tested the ability of ... the H5N1 vaccine viruses did not replicate in the lungs or the brain. To evaluate the protective ability of the vaccines, the researchers gave the mice a s...Women on oxygen therapy for COPD more likely to die than men
...ch frequently co-exist, obstructing airflow to the lungs and interfering with normal breathing. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., and the fifth in Brazil. In 2002, 10.7 million U.S. adults were estimated to have this debilitating disease. In 2004, the cost to the nation for COPD was ...Anger and hostility speed up decline in lung power
...-- the volume of air that can be forced out of the lungs in one second, and a measure of lung power -- of 9 ml a year compared with men whose hostility levels were lower. The authors point out that hostility and anger have been associated with cardiovascular disease, death, and asthma, and that previous ...USC research shows dogs and smog don't mix
...iculate, inhaled highway aerosols and ozone in the lungs of experimental animals. "There's experimental literature that shows both allergens and endotoxin interact with air pollution and increase the effect of each other," says McConnell. "But there's been very little study to see if these experiments ha...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, green chemistry breakthroughs
...rs most often in the skin, ears, nasal sinuses and lungs of people with suppressed immune systems. More recently, CANCIDAS has been used effectively to treat esophageal and other invasive fungal infections and as empirical therapy for presumed fungal infections in febrile neutropenic patients. James Ba...Blood clots can be treated by injections at home
...f blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or the lungs with an older, less expensive form of the anticoagulant medication heparin can be just as safe and effective as similar treatment with a newer and more expensive heparin, according to a study led by Clive Kearon, professor of medicine at McMaster Uni...Penn researchers use the abdomen to deliver oxygen to assist ailing lungs
...vestigator of this study. "The ability to rest the lungs and provide supplemental oxygen with a technique t... had been some way to buy them more time for their lungs to recover. They just exceeded the ability of the ventilator to exchange enough gas through their si...Lung disease study hope for premature babies
...g disease occurs when babies are born before their lungs have full developed, or there is too much stress on the lungs from ventilators. It is a cause of long-term lung complications and brain damage in very low birthwe...Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung disease in premature babies
Delivering nitric oxide to the lungs of premature, very-low-birth-weight infants during...known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, because their lungs were immature and underdeveloped. In this condition, scarring and inflammation in lung tissue make b...3-D computer simulation to aid treatment of collapsed lungs
...used by a lack of surfactant in the underdeveloped lungs of prematurely born babies, can lead to blocked airways causing severe breathing difficulties. To reopen a blocked airway a pressurised finger of air has to be forced deep into the airway. Dr Matthias Heil and Dr Andrew Hazel, of the University's S...Protein potentially links diet, obesity and asthma
... the tubes that carry air from the windpipe to the lungs (bronchi), and that aP2 expression is significantly increased when these cells are stimulated with the molecules interleukin-4 and 13. This finding is very unexpected as aP2 has previously been considered to be a specific marker for fat cells. The gr...Boost radiotherapy effective for very early breast cancer
... applied carefully, especially in regard to heart, lungs and the other breast". ...Media availability: Drug found to help scleroderma patients
...nction in scleroderma patients. When tissue in the lungs hardens or scars, breathing becomes difficult. In the study, participants who received treatment had small but statistically significant improvement in lung function (about 3 percent) and less shortness of breath (dyspnea) compared to those who were ...H5N1 vaccine could be basis for life-saving stockpile
...o spread out of the upper respiratory tract to the lungs or brain. "These findings are especially significant because ferrets are known to be an excellent and accurate model of influenza infection and immune response in humans," said Elena Govorkova, Ph.D., a staff scientist in the Department of Infectiou...Telephone counseling improves lung transplant quality of life
... of the patients needed a transplant because their lungs had been damaged by cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The researchers administered a battery of psychological and physical tests to patients and then randomly assigned them to treatment groups. The pati...Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients
...r pulmonary embolism (blockage of an artery in the lungs that can cause heart rhythm problems). Clot-busting drugs aren't typically used in patients with cardiac arrest because of concerns that the chest compressions used during CPR could cause bleeding complications. Several small studies, however, have s...Study finds ways to improve detection of blood clots in the lung
...st material (dye) to make the blood vessels in the lungs more visible is injected into a vein in the patien...take X-ray pictures of the blood vessels -- in the lungs for the chest CT or in the pelvis or thighs for the leg CT. No additional dye is needed for the leg ...New MRI technique shows emphysema in asymptomatic smokers
...chers found that, in general, the airspaces in the lungs enlarge with age. However, smoking compounds the problem. Dr. Fain and colleagues showed in a related study that these changes occur at a much slower rate in nonsmokers than in active smokers. "On average, active smoking accelerates emphysema-like ch......uana cigarette deposits four times more tar in the lungs than smoking an equivalent amount of tobacco. "Marijuana is packed more loosely than tobacco, so there's less filtration through the rod of the cigarette, so more particles will be inhaled," Dr. Tashkin said. "And marijuana smokers typically smoke di...