Air pollution that increases the exposure of small particles to the body may cause blood clots in the leg. This will result in an increase in deep-vien thrombosis, a condition that is similiar to the "economy...
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Chemicals used in flavouring microwave popcorn may have caused the first case of "popcorn lung" (lung cancer from chemical fumes related to microwave popcorn production) in a consumer. The disease is already...
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Jefferson, N.C. (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - The breakthrough in
pulmonary drug delivery recently announced by Next Safety is basic in
nature and has broad implications for the treatment of a number of
medical conditions. In the area of nicotine alone, the potential...
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And in this week's installment of "Who's Got TB?":"Calgary health officials are trying to track down about 200 people who may have been exposed to pulmonary tuberculosis in a hospital emergency room two months ago.People who were in the emergency room of the Peter Lougheed...
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"It helps you you with smokers cough and you get to sound like Donald Duck Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have discovered that by combining helium with 40 per cent oxygen allowed patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to...
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"Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, has died at the age of 94 in a hospital in Switzerland, his family said on Wednesday. The producer of more than 150 films over a career that spanned 50 years had been in a Geneva hospital for about 10 days...