Modifying macrophages in the lung could head off pulmonary hypertension
In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...
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PET Imaging Could Help Track PAH Onset, Therapy Response, Study Finds
New research could pave the way toward a new method of pulmonary arterial hypertension diagnosis and monitoring.
A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body
Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.
7 dangerous diseases that are caused by 'passive smoking'
Many people believe that only active smokers are at risk of smoking-related diseases. However, passive smoking—breathing in ...
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How our lungs back up the bone marrow to make our blood
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...
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ACC Releases New Guidance on Cardiogenic Shock Management
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has issued its first Concise Clinical Guidance (CCG) to create more streamlined and efficient processes to ...
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UCSF study reveals lungs as source of hematopoietic stem cells
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...
Her maddening cough had an unexpected cause | Medical Mystery
The patient’s own doctors couldn’t agree on a cause. One said asthma. Another implicated her age, then 71. A third blamed ...
Medical Mysteries: Her maddening cough had an unexpected cause
Violin teacher Constance Meyer’s chronic hacking cough was driving other people crazy. The mother of a new student figured out the cause — just in time.