PARIS AFP — Scientists delivered a warning Tuesday about nanotechnology after tests on lab rodents found that microscopic, needle-like fibres that are already in commercial use led to lesions similar to those caused by asbestos. In experiments, researchers led by Ken Donaldson of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, exposed...
JAKARTA AFP — The discovery of a rare species of Indonesian frog that breathes without lungs could shed light on how evolution works, a scientist said Friday. Dissection of the frog, which was found on Borneo last August, showed it breathed entirely through its skin, biologist David Bickford told...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81524) has announced the addition of "Lung Cancer, 3rd Edition" to their offering Lung cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths in men and women. However, since the first edition of Lung Cancer was published 14 years ago, rapid progress in the...
Free the haggis! Thousands of Americans had to make do without the real thing Friday night when they sat down to what should have been a filling meal of boiled sheep's stomach stuffed with minced sheep lung, heart, liver and oatmeal. Jan....
JAKARTA AFP — Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto was to undergo several medical tests on Thursday as the health of the 86-year-old remained critical, one of his doctors said. Suharto, who held Indonesia in an iron grip for 32 years until he was forced to step down a decade ago, was...
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 January 2008-Yale University: Gene Protects Newborns from Killer Respiratory Disease; Richard BucalaC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03012008 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale School of Medicine researchers have isolated a gene that helps protect newborns from the most common...
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — A Malaysian woman who earlier this month became the country's first double organ transplant recipient with a new heart and lungs died Tuesday, a report said. Siti Salmah Jasni, 18, never left hospital after her transplant although doctors had taken her off a respirator Monday...
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Rachel Salis-Silverman of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6063, Salis@email.chop.edu CHICAGO,Nov. 26/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Its not a smoking gun, but its smoking-related, and its there in black-and-white images: evidence of microscopic structural damage deep in the lungs, caused by secondhand cigarette smoke. For the first time, researchers have...
PARIS AFP — The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu can pass through the placenta of a pregnant woman to her unborn fetus, scientists reported Friday. The highly pathogenic flu strain, which has killed 60 percent of humans infected, can also spread to organs other than the lungs in...
DENVER, United States AFP — A US lawyer who sparked a global health scare by crossing the Atlantic while infected with a potentially lethal tuberculosis strain emerged Thursday from weeks of hospital isolation, the clinic said. The National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, discharged Andrew Speaker...
Cooper University Hospital trauma physicians face not only the challenge of saving New Jersey's critically injured governor, but also of updating the public in a way that doesn't sound too technical or terrifying.So far, the doctors - and the governor's staff - have erred on the side of vagueness and...
Senate Assistant Minority Whip Ed Mayne, D-West Valley, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. The cancer was discovered during a CT scan of his lungs that was done two weeks ago because of pneumonialike symptoms. The cancer is in his right lung; it was picked up early enough...
BRUSSELS AFP — Belgian cyclist Christophe Brandt, who suffered multiple injuries in a high speed crash, has been brought out of a medically-induced coma after showing signs of improvement. The 29-year-old Davitom team rider was due to stay in a coma for two days as doctors assessed his injuries following...
SYDNEY AFP — An Australian fossil find may mean living creatures left the world's oceans for the land much earlier than once thought, rewriting a small part of mankind's evolution, scientists said. A study of rocks collected near Buchan in Victoria state's East Gippsland has yielded a lung fish fossil...
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 August 2006-UK Government: Panel appointed to help improve lung disease services; New group set to shape the future of care for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16082006 Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD will be ...
WASHINGTON AFP — Nitric oxide treatment can help prevent long-term lung disease in premature babies if it is administered in the first few weeks after birth, according to two studies. Administered 48 hours after birth, nitric oxide also appears to reduce the risk of brain damage in premature babies,...
OTTAWA AFP — Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper, whose Conservative Party won Canada's national election this week, was in the hospital briefly after experiencing discomfort in his lungs, his spokesman said. Spokesman William Stairs denied press reports that Harper, 46, had suffered an asthma attack, Friday. "He had asthma...
IMMUNEREGEN BIOSCIENCES, Scottsdale, Ariz., will be working closely with Hyperion Biotechnology, San Antonio, Tex., to test the effectiveness of Viprovex to treat and prevent pulmonary anthrax sickness. Tests will take place at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force School of...
Scientists have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells into lung cells, taking a first step toward building human lungs for transplantation. According to research to be published in the journal Tissue Engineering, a team from Imperial College London took human embryonic stem cells and "directed" them...
RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazilian football legend Jair Rosa Pinto who was known as "Master Jaja" has died at the age of 84 at his home here after suffering from a lung related disease, local press reported. Jaja, who gave advice to players like Pele and Didi, was...
