Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Source: American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society meeting
Kate Tateman, 31, a poet and some-time academic, discovers she is pregnant with her first child at about the same time she learns that her mother, approaching 60, has been told she has inoperable lung cancer. This juxtaposition of a birth and a death foretold offers some fairly obvious ironies and occasions for pathos, almost all of which Jayne Anne Phillips avoids in her third novel, MotherKind (Knopf; 291 pages; $24). Instead of ruminating on the metaphysical significance of her premise and the story that springs from it, Phillips concentrates on the day-to-day details of ordinary existence...
DRUG WARNING Since its debut in 1998, Herceptin has stemmed the growth of breast cancer in tens of thousands of women. But now its maker, Genentech, is alerting doctors to possible adverse reactions and even death in a small percentage of patients who have a history of lung problems and did not respond to chemotherapy. A new label in the works will help doctors select the patients best suited for the gene-spliced drug. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...measure of circulatory health has been turned on its head. On Thursday, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued an advisory for health care providers who take patients' blood pressure: Watch the top number more than the bottom one. That's a reversal of conventional wisdom, which dictated that the bottom figure, for diastolic pressure, was the more important indicator of blood pressure because it showed how hard the heart was working to refill itself with blood between pumps. With this new recommendation, the NHLBI focuses attention on systolic pressure - the top figure...
...have to eat a healthy diet for a long time. ("Think of it this way," says Dr. Steven Zeisel, a nutrition expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not involved in either study. "When you stop smoking, you don't immediately lower your risk of lung cancer. It can take 10 years to see a difference.") Or maybe fiber doesn't prevent colon cancer...