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...staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung, one of the few to survive avian flu, says the disease is pure misery. "I felt like my head was about to explode. My heart was pounding like it would come out of my chest, and I couldn't control my muscles...
...male screener who asked her to remove her sweater. Despite being forced to reveal a “tight t-shirt [that made it clear] I wasn’t hiding anything under it,” screeners decided “they had to pat [my] chest down and everything.” The whole process, she concludes, was “just humiliating...
Since the original complaints were publicized, TSA has responded to public pressure, restricting invasive chest pat-downs to cases where handheld detectors are set off. But oversight measures should be improved so that TSA knows about the problem before Jay Leno mocks it on the Tonight Show. And there are still issues to be addressed: hiring enough female guards so that requests for same-sex screeners can be fulfilled, and making the procedures more transparent to keep passengers informed...
Doctors also know that statins can reduce inflammation. So cardiologists from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston put 3,745 patients who had experienced heart attacks or severe chest pain on statins, and later measured levels of both LDL and CRP. It turned out that patients who ended up with low CRP were less likely to have heart attacks or die than those whose CRP stayed high--whether or not their LDL levels went down. Showing that CRP reduction is at least as important as cholesterol reduction, says Dr. Paul Ridker, lead author of the report, is a "home...
After a brief educational video, I was placed in a bed with a forest of small wires attached to sensors all over my head and face and even legs. The staff trained a video camera on me and fitted me with a brace to measure my chest movement. Then I was told to relax and fall asleep. Yeah, right. Eventually I did. And then halfway through the night, a nurse came in and put a special mask on my face. It looks like a respirator, which is what it is. The CPAP (an acronym for continuous positive airway pressure) machine...