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...PART BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCE OF AIDS, IN PART because of breakdowns in public health services, the incidence of tuberculosis has jumped 25% since 1984, when 22,000 cases were documented in the U.S. Physicians from the American Lung Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend a series of more aggressive countermeasures to prevent a general outbreak of TB, some new strains of which are particularly virulent...
Besides taking estrogen supplements, "women themselves can do a lot to reduce their risk of heart disease," says Dr. Millicent Higgins, associate director of epidemiology and biometry at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. She recommends that women have their blood pressure checked and treated if it is found to be high, eat diets low in fat, exercise, lose excess weight and stop smoking. But most important of all, she says, is that "women need to be aware that they can have heart attacks...
...guidelines on acute-pain management. Acute pain directly affects heart rates, respiration, blood pressure and urine production. It can also make cancer progress more rapidly. John Liebeskind and Gayle Page of the University of California, Los Angeles, have studied the effects of surgery-related pain on laboratory rats with lung cancer. They found that tumors metastasized two to three times as fast in rats that received no pain-killers as in those that were given morphine. The stress of pain appeared to inhibit immunological defenses. Concludes Liebeskind: "Pain can kill...
PCAs have been available for a number of years but have only lately gained widespread use. Genevieve Anderson, 64, had part of a cancerous lung removed two years ago at Massachusetts General without benefit of a PCA. More recently, she recovered from additional lung surgery with the device. "There is no comparison," she says. Carr notes that five years ago, a patient who had an aortic bypass would be unable to move the next day. Now, with PCAs, "a lot of them are sitting up doing the crossword puzzle," he says. "The old way was barbaric...
...uncomfortable and embarrassing the exam may be, it could be a lifesaver. The rate of prostate cancer in the U.S. has been steadily rising over the past several years. It strikes 1 in 11 American males and kills more than 30,000 annually. Prostate cancer ranks second only to lung cancer as the most deadly malignancy...