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Hope to extend the life of cystic fibrosis patients
For a long time, the cause of cystic fibrosis (CF - a genetic disease) has been identified as a mutation of a gene called CFTR.
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Air pollution causes cardiac arrhythmias and blood clots
Air pollution is associated with an increased risk of a disease that causes irregular heartbeats and blood clots in the lungs, according to scientists.
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Benefits of deep breathing
Breathing deeply helps protect your body against respiratory problems. Deep breathing expands the lungs and enhances lung activity.
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For the first time successfully replicating human lungs
For the first time, scientists at the Medical University of Texas Medical Branch successfully recreated human lungs in the laboratory.
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Fix heart defects within 20 minutes
For the first time, Siberia surgeons in Russia have used unique technology to correct congenital heart defects.
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Successfully transformed stem cells into lung cells
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have successfully converted human stem cells into fully functional lung cells.
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The woman lived 61 years with iron lungs
An American woman who spent 61 years living in an iron tube covered her entire body from the neck down, acting as a giant lung breathing for her after being paralyzed.
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It took 25 years for the brain to develop completely
Contrary to what many people think, researchers find our brain takes 25 years to complete the development process.
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Drinking dangerous arsenic water like smoking
The study was carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which found that high concentrations of arsenic-contaminated drinking water could be dangerous to th…
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He found a new way to diagnose tuberculosis
UK researchers have found a new way to detect people with pulmonary tuberculosis by identifying escape proteins when the lung is not working.
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New findings on asthma
People at high risk for genes for asthma develop the disease at an early age, according to Health24 on July 1.
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Japanese lung transplant successfully from live donors
Okayama University Hospital, Japan, announced on July 1 that it had successfully performed an organ transplant from a mother's lung lobe for a 3-year-old son.
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Can still revive the dead
A doctor claimed that humans could revive a few hours after they seemed dead. This opens up the hope of saving lives from the hands of death.
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Night work reduces productivity
Night urination at least once has a greater effect on human performance than asthma and some other chronic lung related diseases.
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Further detection of new EMC virus causes pneumonia
Research by European scientists indicates that a virus that has recently damaged the newly discovered human lung is able to penetrate lung cells and cause disease as eas…