Word: lungfuls
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...industrial and traffic pollution as having a detrimental effect on air quality. But all other things being equal, rising temperature by itself increases the amount of ground-level ozone, a major constituent of smog. So many studies have linked higher ozone levels to death rates from heart and lung ailments that many cities issue smog alerts to warn those at risk to stay indoors. You can expect more and longer alerts...
...Widely metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma means lung cancer that is practically everywhere in the body. It's even scary to write the words, since they are invariably written about people who are grey, emaciated and so weak they can't even walk. Their bones break, they slowly suffocate. It's the real reason why doctors are scared of cigarettes. And it's what they wrote about a friend of mine named Charlie...
...After the first round of "cherry picking" - open-chest surgery cutting out the chunks of his lung that held tumors big enough to see and feel - he started an untested chemo regimen; he carried around a battery-powered pump on his belt that fed the nauseous chemicals into his veins around the clock. It was during this period that he came to my office, told me his story and asked if I could do anything about his limp. He had a painful knee. "You have all this going on and you want me to take out a torn cartilage...
...tempted to draw some hope from Charlie's case be warned - in my experience, it hasn't happened since. That said, it really did happen once, and though recent news sadly proclaims that young, healthy people continue to succumb to lung cancer, progress against the disease, using the drugs Charlie got, has been impressive...
...Connolly, “the key is to use science to focus not on only on economic issues but on health issues as well.” He said that workers at Irish pubs, many of whom have no health insurance, are at increased risk for respiratory problems and lung cancer. K. Michael Cummings, chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, also contributed to the study. “I anticipate that this study will be added to the toolbox of public health advocates.” Cummings said...