You watch a woman cross the street. She seems to be about 40 or so, and you realize she has a backpack that has a bottle of oxygen in it. This bottle has 3-6 hours of oxygen in it, and her time on this street and this earth is limited. What could cause a woman ...
Medical science and technology have advanced in huge leaps over the last one hundred years. Transplant surgeries are one of the many advances that doctors and scientists have made in helping people live longer and healthier lives. A transplant involves taking an organ from a living or deceased donor, and placing it in to the ...
Rare and fatal lung disease Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), predominantly affects women of all races (This lung disease rarely effects men) and of childbearing age (LAM has been reported in patients aged 12 to 70 years old), first described in medical literature by Von Stosesel in 1937. The disease characterterized by an unusual type of muscle cells ...
Cystic fibrosis is a progressive, disabling disease of mucus glands in the lungs, liver, pancreas, and the intestines. Thick, and teeming with microbes, the mucus produced is abnormal; in the shelter of matrices called biofilms, rank parches of infection bloom beyond the reach of immune defenses or antibiotics. Over time, glutinous secretions and chronic infection ...
