Word: lunged
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...LUNG CANCER...
Doctors diagnose 173,000 cases of lung cancer in patients each year, 95% of whom will die from it--more than from breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. But New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers found that low-dose, spiral-computed-tomography (CT) screening drastically improved the odds. In a study of 31,567 people, annual CT screening (about 600 images per scan) detected Stage 1 lung cancer in 412 patients, and when the cancer was surgically removed within one month of diagnosis, their 10-year survival rate was an impressive...
...starts out as a tickle in the back of your throat but before long it's that moment from Alien when the monster begins sawing its way through your chest. For some Beijing residents, a hacking, lung-ripping cough that leaves the sufferer unwilling to draw a full breath for fear it might set off another bout is as much part of the onset of Fall as red leaves at the Great Wall. Colds and the flu are common all over the world when winter threatens, of course. But this is something special, a by-product of Beijing's putrid...
...which began administering the flu shots in October to high-risk individuals, has already given 2,000 shots. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, anyone who is over the age of 65, pregnant, or has chronic asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, or cancer is at a high risk of contracting...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive...