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View Post: New Device Implanted by Cardiac Surgeons Help Paralyzed Patients ...
25 Nov 2009
The device is designed to give patients more freedom and to help slow respiratory decline. Patients who have diseases or injuries that affect breathing muscles, such as the diaphragm, are more prone to lung infections because of their ...
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View Post: Causes of Stridor and Wheeze (Breathing Sounds)
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20 Nov 2009 by Dr. Chris   ...
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View Post: Lung Care - Lung Exercises - Lung Diet - Healthy Lungs
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24 Nov 2009 by shelley   ...
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View Post: The Lung Flute: A Sort of Gross (But Important) Medical Innovation ...
17 Nov 2009 by Maggie Koerth-Baker  
Months later, Hawkins was reminded of that discussion when he learned that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of lung diseases that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, makes breathing tough for 10 million people ..... My mom is a respiratory therapist at a hospital. She herself has asthma and passed along the awesome genetics to my sister and I as well. I am familiar with the "Flutter" thing mentioned above, just a simple ball that bounces around ...
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View Post: New drug target may help treat chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps
23 Nov 2009 by Ani  
The Food and Drug Administration's panel of lung specialists voted 11-1 to allow Boehringer Ingelheim to add new labeling about the benefits of Spiriva Handihaler, which is approved to treat lung disease. ... smoke might weaken immune cells ' ability to remove bacterial infections from the lungs, specifically nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI), a pathogen often associated with respiratory infections and the progression of respiratory disease, says a new study. ...
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View Post: H1N1 RBD Changes D225G and D225E in Norway « The LABVIRUS.COM Blog
3 hours ago by labvirus  
Thus, Infections with a high frequency of D225G will likely be quickly cleared from the upper respiratory tract because viruses with D225G will quickly go to the lungs, which wild type sequences will be more quickly cleared from the upper .... British researchers learning the culture of swine flu caused the splash of respiratory diseases in Ukraine suspect its mutation. Some symptoms seem like notorious "Spanish flu" splashed in Europe after the end of the First world war ...
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View Post: Asbestosis Lung Disease - Exposing the dangers of asbestos ...
6 hours ago by alex  
Treatment islimited mainly to a reduction in symptoms of respiratory diseases, based on the premise. The difficulty in breathing and reduced oxygen intake in people with lung disease asbestosis, with the delivery of oxygen therapy are ...
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View Post: Properly burning wood stove should produce little smoke ...
26 Nov 2009
Other studies indicate that children living in homes heated by wood stoves have higher rates of asthma and other respiratory problems than their peers. Kids are at higher risk from wood smoke than grownups because their lungs are still developing, ... Since they're more active than adults, they're also breathing in 50 percent more air for each pound of body weight. Wood smoke also poses risks to other groups, including seniors and people with heart and lung diseases. ...
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View Post: Big Horn Sheep Die-Off / Montana « PublicLandWars
14 hours ago by compassionate1  
The nearly always fatal respiratory disease was first suspected after hunters reported seeing coughing bighorn sheep near the East Fork last Sunday [22 Nov 2009]. Jourdonnais said he found 2 dead sheep on the East Fork Road. The 2 ... vet had to almost peel their lungs away from the rib cage.” Jennifer Ramsey, FWP's wildlife veterinarian in Bozeman said the state will attempt to cull more sheep from the herd over the coming weeks. “Our top priority is to remove sick and ...
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