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--A breath of life for "blue babies." Some NEWBORNS have trouble breathing because blood vessels in their lungs don't expand properly. But now doctors find that inhaling nitric oxide can help. In half the infants studied, tiny quantities of the gas restored breathing within minutes--with no harmful side...
The year was 1981, and Ho was chief medical resident at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Across town at UCLA, Gottlieb had identified a new syndrome that seemed to target gay men. Each of the cases was different, but all had one thing in common: whatever was making the...
For once in the history of HIV, a strategy that ought to work seemed in fact to succeed. Within weeks of starting combination therapy, 7 out of 10 men and women with AIDS begin to get better. Blood tests show that in many of them, the viral load has dropped...
Our children need to hear a clear and consistent no-use message about marijuana--that it is illegal, dangerous and wrong. Research tells us it limits learning, memory, perception, judgment and motor skills, and it damages the brain, heart, lungs and immune system. Marijuana is not a "soft" drug.
The Clean-Air Act went a long way toward making the air we breathe cleaner and healthier, but it didn't go far enough. Despite the tons of lead, sulfur dioxide and other combustion products filtered from the atmosphere, millions of Americans suffer from pollution-related breathing disorders, including asthma...