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An experimental drug now given to heart attack victims may also be an effective treatment for patients with blood clots in their lungs, Harvard researchers will report today.
Led by Dr. Samuel Z. Goldhaber '72, an assistant professor of medicine, a group of doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital gave a drug called Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) to 40 patients with blood clots in their lungs, and it quickly broke up the clots in 37 of them...
Exposed asbestos can cause cancer when airborne in particles large enough to be caught in the lungs.
That the patients were only laboratory mice did not detract from the results: 100% cured of colon cancer that had spread to the liver, 50% cured of colon cancer spread to the lungs. These are remarkable cure rates for malignancies that are virtual death sentences for both mice and people...
Maybe so, but a growing number of people seem to be willing to suck into their lungs the smoke from cocaine in a far more powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when...