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...Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung, one of the few to survive avian flu, says the disease is pure misery. "I felt like my head was about to explode. My heart was pounding like it would come out of my chest, and I couldn't control my muscles...
...Deaths expected this year from lung cancer, the deadliest form of the disease...
...efforts paid off. In December the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved one of her drugs for human testing. The drug, called RAV 12, is a protein that in the dish destroys another protein found in 90% of all gastrointestinal cancers and in 50% of all breast, lung and prostate cancers...
With that surprising exception, the basic health issues associated with hypertension have not changed. What's new is how deep the pool of at-risk people has become and how serious the danger for them is. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) estimates that of 65 million hypertensive Americans, nearly 20 million are not aware they have the condition. Worse, the 65 million figure is just an estimate of the vulnerable population, and that population is a constantly moving target. Every time the nation's obesity needle ticks upward, the number of hypertensive Americans does...
Asthma, for all the problems it causes, is an eminently controllable condition, provided children take their medications, limit exposure to allergens and visit their doctor regularly. Nonetheless, Asthma Action America--a national education organization composed of 21 health groups, including the American Lung Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians--reported last week that 54% of asthmatic American children had a severe attack in the past year, and 27% had at least one attack so severe they feared they were going...