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July 10 (Bloomberg) -- An unexpected characteristic has emerged among many swine flu victims who become severely ill: They are fat. Doctors tracking the pandemic say they see a pattern in hospital reports from Glasgow to Melbourne and from Santiago to New York. People infected with the bug who have a body mass index greater than 40, deemed morbidly obese, suffer respiratory complications that ...
Title: Genetic Breakthrough Spells Hope for Lung Fibrosis Patients Category: Health News Created: 7/9/2009 7:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/9/2009
The government should close all schools nationwide, as well as private tutorial colleges, games shops and Internet cafes - to disinfect these places and help stop students getting the new flu virus, former public health minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said yesterday.
SAN DIEGO----Quidel Corporation , a leading provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, will release 2009 second quarter financial results after market close on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
Might help those with advanced disease buy time until transplant, study shows.
Genes that can help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are becoming seriously ill have been identified by U.S. researchers, who said the findings might help keep patients alive until they can get a lung transplant.
By Melynda Harrison, MSU News Service Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:25 PM CDT Bozeman--There are about 150,000 horses in Montana, about one-sixth the number of people living in the state.
It’s vacation time and almost everybody is planning to include a few moments of leisure in their otherwise busy schedules and fly away to their dream destination.
The first findings from a one-of-a-kind, patient-driven effort to provide lung tissue for research might help doctors predict when patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are becoming dangerously ill and also could point the way to interventions that could sustain them until life-saving transplants can be performed. According to senior author Naftali Kaminski, M.D.
The latest work to 'turn off the taps' in the brain and stop a chemical being released in excess amounts - which can lead to Parkinson's Disease - will be presented at The British Pharmacological Society's Summer Meeting in Edinburgh today (Wednesday, 8 July 2009).
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