Word: lungfuls
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Seventeen-year-old Jesica Santillan was supposed to be one of the lucky ones. After years of living in pain brought on by her failing organs, the teenager finally matched with a heart-lung donor and was admitted to Duke University Medical Center in early February for a double-organ transplant. Thursday morning, after her body rejected the first set of new organs mistakenly implanted with the wrong blood type, Santillan lies in her hospital bed fighting for her life after a second implant procedure. Early reports indicate the second transplant has been successful; Jesica is given a 50 percent...
...DIED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, of a lung infection; in Edinburgh. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996 was a scientific breakthrough, but it raised concerns about the ethics of cloning?and about the health of the clones. Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, has also died, though it seemed to be in good health...
Prematurity is the leading cause of neonatal death, and preemies who survive are at risk for lifelong health problems, ranging from retardation and chronic lung disease to hearing and vision loss. While there are known risk factors, including obesity, anemia, high blood pressure, smoking and drug use, "in fact," says Dr. Nancy Green, medical director of the March of Dimes, "the cause of half of all premature births in the U.S. is a mystery...
...carts-on-steroids should be on the top of any Bangkok tourist's checklist, up there with a visit to the Grand Palace, a kickboxing match at Lumpini Stadium, shopping at Chatuchak weekend market and a longtail-boat ride to the Temple of the Dawn. Tourists get palpitations, incipient lung spots and bragging rights back home; in exchange, the smirking pilot gets a sweaty handful of baht and the chance to strike terror into visiting souls...
...normal fetal development. Now several British research groups are exploring how thalidomide can be used to stop blood vessels forming in and around tumors. Kill the formation of new vessels, they reason, and you kill the tumor. Recent studies into thalidomide treatment of some of the most intractable cancers - lung and pancreatic cancer and multiple myeloma - show promising results. Thalidomide has "three exciting properties to home in on: it can inhibit tumors directly, activate the immune system and be anti-inflammatory," says Keith Dredge of St. George's Hospital Medical School in London, who's working with Revamid, a type...