“Doctors… ask a lot of invasive questions,” shared one study participant. “I saw a pulmonologist earlier in the year and one of his first questions was, ‘When are you getting genital surgery?’ and I was like, ‘I’m here for my lungs.’” Other themes included...
The use of household cleaning agents as a method of self-harm has been reported in the literature frequently. However, reports of Harpic ingestion a commonly used toilet cleaner is significantly lacking. Due to the ease of access of household cleaning agents, people tend to choose it as quick...
with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries...
The key to former Treasury secretary Rubin’s success may have been that hefully1understood that business and government are, in his words, “necessarily and properly very different.”In a recent speech he explained, “Business functions around one predominate organizing principle, profitability ......
My paws: the same old silent friends who stalk for prey, are filled with electricity. Tiny prickles streak up and down my limbs. I dare not look back now; dread has crept like wet cement around my heart and frozen my breath. I cannot stop, although my lungs are raging for clean air...
Further research is needed to fully understand the role of BM microbiota in the infant, the link between the milk microbiota and health benefit, the potential factors influencing this relationship and whether or not it can be influenced by nutrition, though the increasing evidence already highlights...
The lungs don't have pain receptors. Still, medical conditions involving the lungs can cause pain in several ways. Often, the pain comes frompleurisy, which is irritation of the pleura. Pain related to the pleura is called pleuritic chest pain. It can be caused by many different conditions,...
A cardiac surgeon is a type of cardiothoracic surgeon who specializes in operating on the heart, its valves and structures, and the important veins and arteries near it. General cardiothoracic surgeons focus on all of the organs of the upper abdomen, including the lungs, esophagus, and heart. ...
In turn, the heartbeat also goes up during exercise. The heart and lungs are connected through what is known as the pulmonary loop.[2] This is where the right side of the heart picks up the oxygen-poor blood from the body and moves it to the lungs for cleaning and re-oxygenating. ...
She has had to use higher than the usual doses of inhaled medications to open the airways and to counteract the inflammation in her lungs. “I realize my illness is making me say no. As part of an exchange I was to be going to Baltimore, and I said, ‘No, I can’t go.’ That...