Word: lungfuls
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...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...
...embryonic stem cells, which stir up moral and political passions because they can, in theory, be used to create an entire human being, cancer stem cells are mutated forms of adult stem cells that can only make copies of their own cell type, be it blood or skin or lung tissue. What gives those adult cells their "stemness" is the ability to generate more stem cells like themselves (and thus continue to regenerate blood or skin tissue) and to churn out new generations of progeny to replace the cells that mature...
...Kimbara were working on developing immunosuppressive therapies for heart, kidney, and lung transplants, according to a statement released by HMS Thursday...