Oct. 19, 2012, 1 a.m. WALKING 200 metres was a challenge ahead of a double lung transplant in 2011, but now former Burnie woman Toni Miles- Bennett's new challenge will be crossing the Burnie Ten finish line.
In India, rich people should pay more taxes than they do: Jeffrey SachsBusiness StandardJeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and also special adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Developmen…
THREE years ago Bernice Wilson was so weak she could not even talk, but the mother-of-two fought back after a lung transplant and is calling for more people to sign the donor list.
In India, more women have cancer than menIndia.Com HealthEmphasizing the government policies in place, Dr Rakshak at Moolchand Medcity, New Delhi said, 'The government of India's 'National Tobacco Control Programme' has helped in contro…
Wall Street JournalTB Immune to Drugs Proves Hard to DetectWall Street JournalDrug-resistant tuberculosis is going largely undetected in many countries, threatening progress made against the pernicious lung disease over the past decade, according to da…
AFPWHO: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Stays Hard to DetectWall Street JournalDrug-resistant tuberculosis is going largely undetected in many countries, threatening progress made against the pernicious lung disease over the past decade, according to data …
Pulmonary vaccines ensure better responseTimes of India"The lung is an immunologic powerhouse that remains largely unexplored. Theoretically we should be able to avoid needles and simply inhale our vaccines," says Gerald C. Smaldone, professo…
Childhood asthma may pass on to many generationsTimes of IndiaAn Indian origin scientist was recently awarded a two-year, 377,220-dollar grant by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct a st…
CBC.caMillions of productive years lost to cancerTimes of IndiaIt said that about 6% of all deaths in India are from cancer, and 70% of cancer deaths happen between the productive 30-69 age group. There were an estimated 5.6 lakh cancer deaths in India…
Exposure to traffic pollution harms kids' lungsTimes of India"In our prospective birth cohort study…, exposure to traffic-related air pollution during infancy was associated with decrease in lung function at age eight, with stronger effects …