Word: lungful
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Vega says most people who smoke cigars do not inhale and therefore do not subject themselves to lung cancer...
Hultin asked Taubenberger whether he would accept and analyze samples of lung tissue from frozen graves, if he, Hultin, went to Alaska to get them. "When are you planning to leave?" Taubenberger asked. He knew firsthand that such ventures take a lot of advance planning. "I can't go this week," Hultin told him. "But I can go next week." Taubenberger got really quiet. "I don't know what was going through his mind," Hultin says, chuckling. "He probably thought I was some kind...
UNFILTERED, PLEASE Doctors often surgically insert a tiny mesh filter into a patient's groin to prevent a blood clot in the leg from traveling to the lung. Now research suggests that people with the filter may get as many lung clots as those without...
...LUNG RESCUE Finally, a way to treat a condition in which blood pressure in the lungs soars: use intravenous doses of the drug prostacyclin. The malady can show up in people who have taken the diet pills fen/phen or Redux--that's one reason they are off the market...
Same story at the trendy Bar Marmont on Sunset, and at nearby Dublin's. An Irish pub without smoke? Stand on a corner in Los Angeles for two hours, and you've got black lung. But having cleared tobacco smoke from every other public space in California, reformers have entered the last refuge. They'll ban alcohol next, and pretty soon California will be a string of juice bars, from Mexico to Oregon...