Assessing Fetal Lung Maturity - 2

The fetal lungs are the last organ system to "mature" so that survival outside the womb is possible.

Update on cavitary lesion

Well, I thought this patient would have active TB. 3 AFB's were negative. Here is a CT we then got: We bronched her and all AFB's are still negative, 6 days later.

LETTERS: Ventilation Strategies for Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Ventilation Strategies for Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome To the Editor: I believe that the design of the Lung Open Ventilator Study by Dr Meade and colleagues1 made an error by ...

Smoke affects lung growth, gene expression

Doctors and scientists have known for years that cigarette smoke has a range of damaging effects on the human body.

Daily Briefs: Oh! Another primary! Plus: Cigarettes and Lip Gloss

Very landslidey: Amidst the wall-to-wall coverage of Eliot Spitzer's love/hate relationship with prostitutes, you may have missed Barack Obama's victory in the Mississippi Democratic primary yesterday.

Tongue to Alveoli For Language Mastery?

In an essay on how to pronounce the surname of the Putin's presidential successor Dmitri Medvedev , Serge Schememann writes of English speakers vexed by the Russian language, and he gently mocks the language ...