Here we can see that the primary concern with shipping is air - pollution («US academic research which showed that pollution from the world's 90,000 cargo ships leads to 60,000 deaths a year in the US alone and costs up to $ 330bn per year in health costs
from lung and heart diseases»).
Not exact matches
Similarly, early action to reduce exposure to fine particle pollution helped avoid thousands of premature deaths
from heart and lung disease.
Smoke inhalation
from wildfires can also be deadly over time, since fine smoke particles in the air aggravate asthma, provoke inflammation,
and strain the
heart and lungs.
Both have passed on, with Turkel dying of a
heart attack in 2009
and Kail passing away
from lung cancer in 2013, but their reputation as the industry's most revered sales duo remains intact.
In 1995 more young Americans died by suicide than
from cancer,
heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza
and lung disease combined.
a knee - level view
from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot
and countable ribs, coughing
from your steel - banded
lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts
and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted
and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins
and rags
and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the
heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours
and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.
truthfolower01 — for a wolf to evolve into a chihuahua
and a great dane (
and every breed in between) you must accept that the spinal chord can evolve
from its original length to lengths
from a few inches to a few feet, for fundamental organs like the
heart,
lungs and stomach to evolve into vastly different sizes, for limb length to evolve into greatly different sizes, for facial structure to evolve into shapes as different as the dachshund
and the pug, for se.xual organs to evolve into very different sizes, for hair length, color
and curliness to evolve, for sense organs like smell
and bark to evolve.
Haggis is traditional Scottish sausage made
from a sheep's stomach stuffed with diced sheep's liver,
lungs and heart, oatmeal... bleah!
As if that wasn't enough, you know that beautiful orange color they have, the compounds that create that can help protect you
from developing
lung cancer
and and heart disease.
The following year, suffering
from a grave
heart condition
and terminal
lung cancer, a doctor informed him the brutalities of the bullring
and hard living meant he could no longer ride his beloved horses, smoke, drink or fuck.
In school, anytime I thought I ought to speak my
heart thumped so hard that it suppressed the air
from lungs and stopped the words at my chest.
Omg I just saw the infant death
from congenital
heart and lung defects - which should have been diagnosed during the anatomy scan, right?
The study drew data
from the Pregnancy Outcomes
and Community Health (POUCH)
and POUCHmoms studies, which were funded by the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
and the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute.
Your OB / GYN, midwife or whomever is caring for you while you're pregnant will want you to stay away
from exercise if you have some forms of
heart and lung disease, cervical problems, risk factors for preterm labor or pregnancy - related high blood pressure.
Babies who sleep in their parents» rooms but not in their beds have a 30 percent lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SIDS, the most common cause of infant death, than babies sleeping in a separate room
from their parents, according to a National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute report published in the June 2006 issue of «Canadian Medical Association Journal.»
If at all possible, parents of premature or very young infants
and parents of children with a health condition that affects the
lungs,
heart, or immune system should keep their children away
from child care centers during the peak of RSV season.
An international study led by scientists
from Inserm
and Paris Diderot University (France), the University of Chicago (USA), the National
Heart and Lung Institute (UK)
and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (USA) together with researchers of the Trans - National Asthma Genetics Consortium (TAGC) has discovered five new regions of the genome that increase the risk of asthma.
Scientists have long experimented with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of human organs, such as
lungs,
hearts and intestines, made
from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer memory stick.
It all adds up to fewer deaths
from things like
lung cancer, liver disease,
heart attacks
and car crashes.
«For most trainees, payback is easily accomplished,» says a description of the NRSA program
from the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
But monitoring by the London Air project
from King's College, London, showed that the rules had been breached by 9 pm on Thursday for the pollutant, which is linked to
heart and lung problems
and even early deaths.
Using cutting - edge 3D microscopy, researchers
from the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute
and Yale University examined the subcellular architecture of presynaptic terminals in retinal bipolar cells of live goldfish.
Massachusetts General Hospital has, under strict protocols in emergency cases, transplanted
hearts,
lungs and livers
from donors with hepatitis C to uninfected patients, who were given the antiviral medications, he says.
Two unique clinical features of
heart failure in children, say the guidelines» authors, are the possible coexistence of structural congenital
heart lesions, with simultaneous over-circulation to the
lungs,
and under - perfusion to the body (when the two circulations are linked in parallel by an intracardiac shunt or a patent arterial duct);
and a change in symptom complexes over time
from infancy through adolescence.
This research was funded by grants
from the Swedish Research Council, the
Heart -
Lung Foundation, the Swedish Medical Society, the King Gustaf V's
and Queen Victoria's Foundation of Freemason, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation,
and the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.
Professor Ajit Lalvani
from the National
Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly,
and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»
A new letter, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together data
from the five - year Conflict of Interest Notification Study backed by the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute, along with broader reports on conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals
and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial participants.
The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses
from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health
and Retirement Study who were 54 or older
and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer,
lung disease,
heart disease or stroke.
The research was funded by grants
from the National Institutes of Health - National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute
and the National Science Foundation in the United States,
and the Science Faculty, Aarhus University, in Denmark.
Contributing to the work were researchers
from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases, the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute
and the NIH Clinical Center, all part of NIH, along with their colleagues in Turkey
and the United Kingdom.
When a CT scan revealed a 24 - inch clot stretching
from his legs into his
heart, doctors feared the mass could break loose
and lodge in his
lungs, blocking oxygen
and killing him instantly.
The National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has released the first comprehensive, evidence - based guidelines for management of sickle cell disease
from birth to end of life, based on recommendations developed by a nationwide team of experts co-chaired by a UT Southwestern Medical Center hematologist.
Nearly 100,000 Americans die each year when a clot breaks away
from the blood - vessel wall
and lodges in the
lungs or
heart.
In the current study, McKeown
and her colleagues analyzed longitudinal data on 1,685 middle - aged adults over a period of 14 years, obtained
from the Framingham
Heart Study's Offspring cohort — a National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute - funded program that has monitored multiple generations for lifestyle
and clinical characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
The research has received support
from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden), the Swedish
Heart -
Lung Foundation
and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing.
Standing nearly 5 kilometres
from SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket as it took off for the first time, I felt like my
lungs were exposed to the open air, the rushing sound
and steam
from the rocket's engines squeezing my
heart and making it beat off - kilter.
Professor Mary Morrell, co-principal investigator of the study
from the National
Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said: «Sleep apnoea can be hugely damaging to patients» quality of life and increase their risk of road accidents, heart disease and other condit
Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said: «Sleep apnoea can be hugely damaging to patients» quality of life
and increase their risk of road accidents,
heart disease and other condit
heart disease
and other conditions.
To gauge the risks of various ailments
from hormone therapy, Jacques E. Rossouw of the National
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md.,
and his colleagues combined data
from two trials that included more than 27,000 women.
Findings
from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function
Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of He
Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death
from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage
heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of He
heart failure in patients with
heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of He
heart failure
and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of He
Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
This is where the crucial switch is made
and our bodies perform their miraculous life - sustaining alchemy: Carbon is removed
from the blood to be expelled
from the
lungs and replaced by fresh oxygen, which is then pumped to the
heart for circulation.
In much of California, on the other hand, a witches» brew of pollutants cooked in the atmosphere can sear the delicate tissue lining the
lungs and aggravate an astonishing array of other health problems, ranging
from heart disease
and lung cancer to dementia.
The drug, originally developed to treat hypertension in adults, works in pulmonary hypertension newborns by reducing pulmonary vascular resistance, relaxing the
lungs and keeping the
heart from having to work as hard.
The study examined nanoparticle entry into endothelial cells
and macrophages for the in vitro study,
and the same type of cells
from the
lung,
heart and bone marrow for the in vivo component.
Scientists
from the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim
and Goethe University Frankfurt have now shown that tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall.
Labs that will share $ 40 million over 4 years
from NHGRI (
and another $ 8 million
from the National
Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute), include: a $ 5.2 million a year center at the University of Washington, headed by Deborah Nickerson
and others; a $ 2.8 million a year center at Yale University, led by Richard Lifton
and others;
and a joint center with $ 4 million per year led by David Valle at the Johns Hopkins University
and Baylor's James Lupski.
High temperatures make it harder for the body to cool off,
and they exacerbate air pollution, leading to more hospital visits
from people with vulnerable
hearts and lungs, particularly the very young
and the elderly.
THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates
from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental
and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.
The embassy has been using Twitter to publish average hourly readings of particulate matter that's less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5): fine particles
from combustion
and industrial emissions that penetrate deeply into the
lungs and are linked to
heart disease
and other health problems.
Scientists
from Didier Stainier's group at the Max Planck Institute for
Heart and Lung Research have now identified the reason for this.
The study was led by Professor William Cookson
and Professor Miriam Moffatt
from the National
Heart &
Lung Institute at Imperial College London.