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As Use of Herbal Remedies Soars, Patients Taking These and Cardiovascular Medications May be at Heightened Risk of Dangerous, Potentially Life-Threatening Interactions
"Many people have a false sense of security about these herbal products because they are seen as 'natural,'" said Arshad Jahangir, M.D.,...
Bordetella bronchiseptica pneumonia in a man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a case report
Introduction Bordetella bronchiseptica is a common pathogen in the respiratory ract of many wild and domestic animals, but it is rarely found in...
Complementary Therapies for Smoking Cessation – A Useful Tool or Merely a Smoke Screen?
There are more than one billion smokers in the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) attributes 5.4 million deaths per year to tobacco use and...
Critical Care Professional Societies Address the Critical Care Crisis in the US
While it has been generally acknowledged and widely appreciated that the shortages in nursing, respiratory care practitioners, and pharmacists have...
Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer A Systemic Rather than Surgical Disease?
The lung cancer sessions at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in 2003 highlighted the role of multi-modality management in...
Endoscopic Management of Early Stage Lung Cancers
Treatment of lung cancer at an early stage (early superficial bronchial carcoinoma, ESBC) should improve the cure rate, prevent an evolution to more...
Fighting Lung Disease
In its fight to improve life, one breath at a time, the American Lung Association focuses its efforts in three main areas—prevention, detection...
Genetic Determinants of Smoking Cessation
The Tobacco Epidemic Tobacco has been identified as the second major cause of death in the world. Recent estimates suggest that more than 5 million...
Lung metastasis 21 years after initial diagnosis of osteosarcoma: a case report
IntroductionOsteosarcoma is the third most common cancer in adolescence, after lymphomas and brain tumors. One-third of patients who present with...
Lymph Node Staging in Lung Cancer
Methods of Mediastinal Staging Computed Tomography It is generally agreed that a patient who presents with a known or suspected treatable lung...
Maintenance Therapy in Non-small-cell Lung Cancer –Review of Rationale, Clinical Need and Available Data
First-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is classically based on combination...
Mediastinal Tumors A Diagnostic Approach
This scheme, based on divisions viewed on the lateral chest radiograph (CXR), does not correlate with any true anatomic compartments. Rather, it is...
Novel Screening Methodologies for Lung Cancer
Therefore, lung cancer should be a good candidate for screening. An important issue is the enrolment of the population into screening trials. About...
Preventing, Diagnosing and Treating Pleural Infection and Malignant Pleural Effusion
The pleura is an elastic, serous membrane that lines the inner aspect of the thoracic cage and the outer surface of the lung; it has a surface area...
Principles of Surgical Treatment for Early-stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Usual Survival Figures Survival rates are usually expressed with reference to the stage of disease, which is codified into a tumour-node-metastasis...
Radiofrequency Ablation - A New Treatment Option for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
Recently, two large studies evaluating the addition of chemotherapy to surgery for stage I and II NSCLC showed a 12–15% improvement in survival...
Radiofrequency Ablation A New Treatment Option for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
However, only one-third of patients are surgical candidates due to their advanced stage at presentation or medical comorbidities. In these patients,...
Surgical Treatment of Thymic Neuroendocrine Carcinoid
Neuroendocrine tumours of thymic origin are characterised by a high biological aggressiveness, unlike carcinoid tumours arising from the...
