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...later moved to the New England Conservatory, where he became the Conservatory’s first non-musician president in 2000. He was planning on stepping down at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year due to chronic lung disease...
...full codes going on in the same smallish room. The medical people had squeezed in; there was a knot of them around each patient, hands on chins or EKG strips. We were working away but could only get their pressures up a little. They were both doing well lung-wise. The old man was completely out and intubated now; the nurse was breathing and reacted weakly when needles were inserted ,but that's all. There was a moment of stability and everyone seemed to look up at everyone else - the surgeons looked at the medical guys, the medical guys looked...
...Cinderella story - a perfect matching of drug to cancer. The specific cancers for which Gleevec has wrought such miracles - chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) - rely pretty exclusively on a pathway that Gleevec targets, making these diseases ideal victims for a targeted therapy. But breast, lung, colon and prostate cancers, the leading types of cancer in the U.S., aren't as accommodating...
...premature birth. The prematurity rate has jumped more than 30 percent since 1981, and more than 500,000 babies are born too soon every year. Prematurity is now the leading cause of death in newborns, and babies who survive often face lifelong challenges of cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, vision and hearing loss, as well as other developmental problems. Just as the March of Dimes once focused the nation’s attention on polio and conquered it, today it addresses the increasing rate of prematurity by raising public awareness and funding more research to identify the causes...
Indeed, it is doubtful that smokers endanger bystanders at all. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, out of twenty-three studies of workplace passive smoke, “Only one reported a statistically significant association between exposure to secondhand smoke at the workplace and risk for lung cancer...