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Cho Chang Ho, 63, has been to hell and lived to tell about it. The South Korean army lieutenant was reported killed in action during the Korean War, and he had been forgotten, even by his family. But all those years Cho was alive in North Korea. Last week he...
-- Researchers may be closer to developing a universal screening test for cancer. By examining tumors from the lungs, bladder, head and neck, doctors found characteristic DNA "fingerprints" that betrayed the presence of malignant cells no matter which tissue they came from.
Treatment to stop the growth of malignant tumors may come from a protein in the tumors themselves, researchers have found. Scientists at the Children's Hospital discovered that angiostatin -- a protein produced by large, growing tumors -- inhibits the growth of tiny secondary tumors that spread through the bloodstream and often...
The disease soon changed to the pneumonic variety, by far the deadlier of the two. The bacteria which carry pneumonic plague can be transmitted through water droplets from the lungs of humans--that is, whenever people sneeze. This can bring the disease to epidemic proportions as the bacteria travel from...
In an illness like tuberculosis, the immune system kills the body's own cells in the localized areas where TB germs have taken hold, including the lungs or the bones. With staph or strep, the sheer volume of disease-fighting immune cells can overload blood vessels, ripping tiny tears in...