It took three more tests, including a lung-tissue biopsy, to nail it down as TB.
Genentech is buoyed by preliminary results of a small lung-cancer trial conducted by M.
It's blamed by public health officials for an estimated 15, 000 to 22, 000 U.S. lung-cancer deaths annually.
Sulfur dioxide forms lung-damaging soot and smog, and has been linked to an array of respiratory problems.
Families will huddle around these lamps, inhaling the lung-burning equivalent of two packs of cigarettes each from kerosene fumes.
Genentech patented the lung-delivery concept but ultimately decided to pass on the technology.
Part of the explanation, historically, has been prejudice - according to researchers struggling to win research backing for lung-cancer projects.
On these occasions I go into a "tipping and turning" iron lung -- a more recent development of the original.
The highlight is the Russian sauna, a dimly lit, dungeon-like place heated to an unbearable, lung-scorching 194 degrees the maximum allowed by law.
Two years ago, Inspire Pharmaceuticals wanted to start testing a lung-clearing compound.
In January, the Food and Drug Administration approved Kalydeco, the first drug to actually reverse the biological changes that cause the lung-destroying disease.
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The data show that, after failure of second-line chemotherapy, lung-cancer patients rarely get any added survival time from further treatments and often suffer significant side effects.
Here is perhaps an even more chilling number: according to the ONS more than 70% of lung-cancer sufferers are dead in less than a year after diagnosis.
We've seen them sniff out air contaminents and cancer before, but this time 'round it's lung-fulls of harmful poisons, such as biological weapons and gas leaks.
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She and her father -- who sustained serious injuries including back injuries, broken ribs and a collapsed lung -- were flown to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
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Based on the new resultsRoche is planning to launch a late-stage trial of its PD-L1 inhibitor in lung-cancer patients, while Bristol-Myers is moving its combination regimen into late-phase studies as well.
Four truckers whose rigs were blown off Interstate 29 were the only ones hospitalized -- one with a punctured lung -- due to this particular tornado, the National Weather Service said.
Far from being a spark plug for crowd trouble, I believe anthems, whether booed or sung with lung-busting gusto, add to the atmosphere of the game and put fire in players' bellies.
If NSI can obtain all the data on the screening programs, particularly data from easily manipulated lung-function tests, Brickman said, it might be able to prove a coordinated scheme to extract fraudulent settlements.
Welcome to a typical Highland gathering: a day of tests of brute strength, lung-power and agility, an entertainment that can be found nearly every weekend somewhere in the Scottish Highlands during the summer.
In separate experiments, the two flavonoids were added to lung-cell cultures before, during and after infection with H5N1, and tested on H5N1-infected cells treated with zanamivir (brand name Relenza), an antiviral drug prescribed to flu patients.
But he said the detrimental effect on cognition could be due to be attributable to poor heart and lung function affecting the brain, or directly harmful effects of smoking on brain - as well as lung - tissue.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation's worst air for much of January, when an icy fog smothers mountain valleys for days or weeks at a time and traps lung-busting soot.
The comic wanted to be entirely free of the drug - which he had used to treat pulmonary fibrosis, an inflammatory lung disease - and be back to his normal weight by March.
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In one early trial on 64 cancer patients, 16 had advanced lung cancer--and tumors shriveled dramatically in 4 of them.
For one thing, the drug seemed to decrease patient's lung function--apparently the result of the way the insulin, a big, complicated protein, was delivered into the lungs.
The researchers suggest a "small but significant" negative effect of 4% linked to the combined effects of smoking and impaired lung function - itself linked to smoking.
They infected mice with two bacteria that are both common in lung infections - Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus - and sampled their breath after 24 hours.
Separately, Pfizer said that the Food and Drug Administration has approved Xalkori capsules, which the company calls the first-ever drug targeting anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that is ALK-positive.
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