Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large amounts of vitamins may turn out to be more than just an expensive fad. Still, experts caution that the research does not provide a conclusive link between vitamin E and healthy hearts. "We cannot yet make public-policy recommendations," says Claude Lenfant, director of the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "We need randomized trials" in which the subjects do not know if they are taking the vitamin...
...author knows this well. Last year, as Norman Rudnick was dying of lung cancer, the family gathered at his bedside. "Some visitors were very quiet and depressed, with their hands folded. But with my mom and my brother and me, I found that the more we laughed and behaved normally -- the more we acknowledged the awfulness but didn't let it become the rule -- the more it helped...
This frightening statistic, presented by Nancy Brinker in her 1990 autobiography of one woman's struggle against breast cancer, brings home the staggering reality of the disease--a disease which remains second only to lung cancer as the major cause of cancer deaths in women...
...more than 23% of youths ages 12 to 17 said they smoked marijuana; in 1991 that figure was 13%, and Bonner says it is still falling. Bonner also offers a reminder that studies confirm such marijuana health risks as destruction of nerve cells in the brain and lung damage...
Clinicians have also achieved some success against a lung ailment called Mycobacterium avium complex, which mimics tuberculosis. "MAC is difficult to treat," says Dr. Mathilde Krim, chairman of AmFAR. "It is considered a bad omen and is usually terminal." This past December the Food and Drug Administration approved rifabutin for protection against MAC. According to clinical trials sponsored by AmFAR, the drug cuts the chance of developing...