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...Some 32% to 84% of asthma patients - the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute estimates there are more than 22 million in the U.S. - may suffer from acid reflux, or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to past research cited in the current study. Only about half of those patients have the usual symptoms of GERD, such as nausea, chest pain or heartburn, but doctors think the condition may exacerbate asthma, possibly by causing aspiration of acid into the lungs. The common practice, set forth by National Institutes of Health guidelines, is to treat asthmatic patients - particularly those who have severe...
...Helped develop surveys for groups ranging from the American Lung Association to A.C. Nielsen...
...strong men and women collapse, touched the smoke-grown tumors in the operating room, the path lab, even on those poor experimental bunnies' ears and I'm convinced. You can be dubious about global warming if you want - but not about cigarettes. They absolutely do cause cancer, vascular and lung disease - the things that kill most of us. I've watched scores quit too, seen their skin get pinker, their wounds heal faster, their lungs work better. It's true: No matter when they quit they're better...
...Slippery statistics like this are everywhere. Take survival rates - which seem so clear but can be anything but. A 2006 study of CT scan screening for lung cancer seemed to produce results that were flat-out dazzling: Of the 174,000 people who are given a lung cancer diagnosis each year, only 5% are still alive 10 years later. But when CT scans were used to detect tumors early, the survival rate leaped to a stunning...
...January, Manuel warned that billion-dollar bailouts were a distraction from a bigger, supranational task: the creation of truly global regulation to oversee global capitalism. Or as he recently put it to Johannesburg weekly the Financial Mail: "If you were a doctor and your patient had major cardiovascular and lung problems, prescribing an aspirin ... might make him feel better, but would it solve the problem?" At the G-20, the developing world will look to Manuel to speak for them, as he often does. The humbled leaders of rich nations are likely to listen. "There's not a single finance...