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Hyaline membrane disease occurs because the infant's lungs do not produce enough of a vital substance: pulmonary surfactant, a whitish, soaplike chemical that coats the lungs and keeps airspaces open. Without surfactant, the air sacs in the lungs become stiff and collapse, preventing inhalation, and the lungs become...
Now comes what may eventually be a simpler and cheaper solution. In the British medical journal Lancet, Pediatrician Tetsuro Fujiwara reports successfully using a strange concoction to coat the lungs of 15 newborns with HMD who were not responding to standard therapy. The ingredients: purified surfactant taken from cow lungs...
Fujiwara, an associate professor at the Akita University School of Medicine in northern Japan, solved these problems in a sort of medical hat trick that is, as he puts it, "simplicity itself." Picking up cow lungs at local slaughterhouses, he scraped off their surfactant, rid it of most of its...
He was singing Home on the Range at the top of his lungs.
Sen. Charles M.C. Mathias (RMd.), who led the hearings, said yesterday witnesses had presented definite evidence during the hearing that marijuana was harmful to the brain, the lungs, and the reproductive system.