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Clinicians have also achieved some success against a lung ailment called Mycobacterium avium complex, which mimics tuberculosis. "MAC is difficult to treat," says Dr. Mathilde Krim, chairman of AmFAR. "It is considered a bad omen and is usually terminal." This past December the Food and Drug Administration approved rifabutin for protection against MAC. According to clinical trials sponsored by AmFAR, the drug cuts the chance of developing...
...Opera. "An affordable musical" by Dave Reiser and Jack Sharkey (authors of Jekyll Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
...studies, speculates that the reduction in seminal fluids to the prostate gland could trigger the development of a malignancy. But no one knows for certain how that might happen. Moreover, the link is relatively weak. Men who smoke, by comparison, are 17 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop lung cancer...
Pneumonia plugs up the lung's air spaces, reducing the surface area available for the lungs to exchange gas with the blood. Nitric oxide, produced naturally by organ linings as a hormone to dilate blood vessels, works by improving gas exchange efficiency in the remaining unclogged spaces...
Stella Kourembanas, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School, said a great deal of attention has been focused on nitric oxide since the discovery in 1987 of its effects on the lung's blood vessels. In 1992, Science named the compound "Molecule of the Year...