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For years researchers have debated whether smoking affects the lungs of men and women differently. So far, there's been as much evidence against a sex bias as for one. But that may be starting to change. In the most compelling study on the topic to date, researchers determined that...
Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs...
DAVID M. OSHINSKY It was the stuff of nightmares: a crippling disease with no known cause that seemed to target children, especially American children. It put its victims in iron lungs and paralyzed a President. This Pulitzer prizewinning history goes behind the scenes of the scientific street fight that raged...
We blew into the patient's room eager not to show how we panted. A 10-sec. synopsis of the patient's situation would come from a nurse or medical resident while we took our places. I was amazed how natural this behavior seemed, unrehearsed, undirected but seamlessly coordinated: Somebody...
Here pumping the chest, inflating the lungs, filling the blood vessels and starting the heart were the immediate and technically demanding needs. It was only when the medicine was unknown to us or very complex - renal failure cases, rare diseases or cancer patients on weird experimental chemo - that we looked...