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It's the 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...
A few years after I went blind at the age of 13, I sent away for a Braille book about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's ascent of Mount Everest. As I read, I imagined with fear and delight the two pioneers standing only 60 meters below the summit at...
The risk of death from SARS, meanwhile, may have less to do with a particular strain of the virus and more to do with the body's reaction to it. "The immunological and inflammatory response of the body," says Fauci, "could be contributing significantly to the damage in the lungs...
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) is a respiratory illness that primarily affects the lungs but may also involve the digestive tract.
What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest...