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Stimulation of brain hormone action may improve pneumonia survival

An international research team may have found a way to block a second wave of death that can result from pneumonia treatment.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study fundamentally alters our understanding of lung growth

A ground-breaking international study into the ways lungs grow and develop has challenged existing medical understanding that our lungs are completely formed by the age of three.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Better treatment sought for acute lung injury

Patients can essentially drown in their own fluids when trauma and infection prompt blood vessels to leak, flooding millions of air sacs in their lungs.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Сomputed tomography shows changes in lungs associated with COPD flare-ups

Using computed tomography (CT), researchers have identified two types of structural changes in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that are associated with frequent exacerbations, or episodes ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research links telomere length to emphysema risk

Telomeres, the body's own cellular clocks, may be a crucial factor underlying the development of emphysema, according to research from Johns Hopkins University.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air with sparrow- to Cessna-sized wingspans. Researchers suspected that these extinct ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 10