Word: lungfuls
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McCombe retired under pressure in 2003, when his health required him to carry around an oxygen tank. He suffered from diabetes and a weak lung...
Harvard, along with two other academic institutions, will take the lead in moving basic stem cell science towards clinical applications after receiving an $11.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week...
...NHLBI, one of the institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will finance the establishment of specialized centers for the research and development of cell-based therapies for heart, lung, and blood diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Baylor College of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins University...
...After all, a face transplant, unlike a heart or lung transplant, is not a life-saving procedure. Since the benefit is not as great, the risk of complications looms larger. Surgery is just a first step. A person who receives a face transplant will need to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his or her life. Side effects from these medications may lead to diabetes, cancer and even death. Despite all that, the body may still reject the new face, leading to more and more complicated surgery...
...thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World Health Organization has predicted that one third of the 300 million young men in China will die prematurely of smoking-related ailments. Any measures to dissuade the estimated five million Chinese minors...