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Raymond P. Lavietes ’36, a Harvard basketball star and the namesake of Harvard’s basketball pavilion, died of lung cancer Jan. 12 in Scottsdale, Ariz...
NOMATEP, a group created to oppose the project that claimed to represent over 100 community organizations, argued that the nitrous oxides emitted by diesel engines would eventually cause lung cancer in those who lived in the area...
Finally, after several more hearings considering the potential health costs of the plant—4 people might die of lung cancer over 40 years, they concluded—the SJC ruled to let the plant operate, and the diesels were fired up, despite residents’ claims that Harvard was as “sick...[as] Nazi Germany...
...kind of surgery you would never expect most people with emphysema--a degenerative, often smoking-related condition of the lungs--to agree to undergo. Called lung-volume reduction, the operation is designed to decrease the capacity of the lungs in an attempt to improve their overall efficiency. In 1996 the National Institutes of Health decided to put the controversial operation to the test. The conclusion, published last week: the surgery can help some emphysema sufferers breathe more easily and improve their quality of life. Of the 1,218 patients in the study, researchers found that those who were too ailing...
...greatly increased risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke or developing kidney problems. But the more scientists learn about how hypertension affects various arteries and organs, the more they realize the damage begins long before that somewhat arbitrary cutoff. This growing awareness prompted the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week to revise its blood-pressure guidelines so that 45 million Americans whose blood pressure is between 120/80 and 139/89--a level that was once considered to be on the high side of normal--will now be told that they have prehypertension...