Word: emphysema
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Whatever the new weapons against smoking addiction may be, the authors stress that we already know the best way to prevent it - by not smoking in the first place. Cancer risk aside, smoking also increases the risk of emphysema and heart disease; what's more, smokers without the genetic variants are not at all protected from developing lung cancer or any other smoking-related disease. "Nothing in these papers should give people comfort in terms of continuing smoking," says Edelman, "even after they have their genetic profiles looked at. But if we can use this information to develop better approaches...
Such findings may someday offer hope for millions of American suffering from lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Schwartz stresses that his study was not a clinical one with randomized subjects, but lung experts agree that Schwartz's group has highlighted an intriguing association that deserves further study. "These findings will be highly embraced by the pulmonary community," says Dr. Michael Roth, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCLA Medical Center...
DIED. Dale Noyd, 73, decorated Air Force captain and longtime Air Force Academy teacher who in 1966 drew worldwide attention as a humanist and conscientious objector to one war: Vietnam; of emphysema; in Seattle. After the Air Force refused his request to resign his commission based on his belief that the war was illegal and immoral, he filed a suit against the Pentagon that the Supreme Court declined to hear. Around the same time, he was court-martialed for refusing to train a pilot destined for Vietnam, sentenced to a year in jail and dishonorably discharged...
...that far from being a fact, the obesity epidemic is a potpourri of scientific, moral and ideological assumptions. One of these-that fat is bad and will eventually make you sick-ignores evidence that high BMI is associated with lower incidence of numerous diseases and syndromes, including some cancers, emphysema, anemia, bronchitis, osteoarthritis and hip fracture. It also skirts the evidence for fat, in many cases, being little more than a benign marker of an individual's genetic predisposition to carry it. According to GPs, there are many people who eat sensibly, exercise regularly and have excellent health readings...
What quickly became apparent to Rick and Maureen Dailey, after moving to Florida two years ago to care for Maureen's 84-year-old mom, was that the humid Florida climate was not good for the older woman's emphysema. Looking to head north to Delaware so that he and Maureen could be near their adult children, Rick, 60, a former police officer, ended his Internet search for a Realtor when he discovered Re/Max agent Kathy Sperl-Bell's website. Although he had never heard of her Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) designation, he was so impressed with the info...