Word: rds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Programs like Manhattan's Fast Track to Employment work with employers to help the recovering mentally ill find jobs. At least 50 firms have signed on, and most seem satisfied. "We had anxieties at first," admits RDS Delivery Service co-owner David Zogby, "but customers called to salute us." Says George Castaldo of American Postcard Co. of his new hires: "They come 20 minutes early in rain, snow or cold, and they give...
Normally, says Avery, the lung contains a constant residue of oxygen, even on exhaling. But in infants with RDS, the lung does not contain this residue, and breathing remains difficult...
Avery says that thanks to this new therapy, the U.S. infant mortality rate has been cut by 50 percent, and RDS is no longer the leading cause of death in premature infants...
Surfactant production can also be stimulated by the delivery of glucocorticoid, a steroid, to pregnant women. The fetus secretes surfactant into the amniotic fluid, which can then be tested by doctors in amniocentesis to determine whether or not the newborn will have RDS...
What happened, however, was that many of these infants were born with immature lungs that did not produce enough surfactant. By performing autopsies on a large number of stillborn infants as well as those who died of RDS after delivery, Avery found that the lack of surfactant was due to the high blood glucose of these infants...