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Estimated US brain cancer cases in 2008 by Dr. Brian M. Medical DoctorHealth Maven Posted Sat 23 Aug 2008 3:10pm The American Cancer Society recently put out a publication entitled Cancer Facts and Figures 2008 in which it is reported that there will be 21,810 new brain and other nervous system cancers in the United States in 2008. Compare that to the estimated number of new lung and bronchus cancers: 215,020. Read on »
S.A.L.T. Device by Adam THOMPSON Posted Sun 30 May 2010 11:21am Supraglottic Airway Laryngopharyngeal Tube Link to product: S.A.L.T. Some videos: I have used the S.A.L.T. device once on a cardiac arrest patient. Initially it found it's way in the right mainstem bronchus; which we easily resolved. Others have told me that they have had problems with the securing Read on »
Artificial valves in unusual location : “Yes” within lungs by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor Posted Sat 16 Oct 2010 7:23am and prescription  filled with latest  generation treatemnt  modalities . Here is a stunner  at least for  me  !   to find  , artificial  valves  being used   in the human bronchus Read on »
Top 10 Causes of Death - World Health Organization! by Tonie K. Patient Expert Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 9:25pm 1 Comment The 10 leading causes of death rated according to wealth of the countries. Inormation supplied by the World Health Orginization. High-Income Countries Deaths in millions % of deaths Coronary heart disease 1.34 17.1 Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases 0.77 9.8 Ttachea, bronchus, lung Read on »
Cancer Death Rates Fall--Serious Medicine Works! by Jim Pinkerton Posted Mon 07 Dec 2009 12:00am 1990s, rates of breast cancer in women decreased by an average of 1.2 percent per year between 1997 and 2006, the report said. Also decreasing were the rates of lung and bronchus Read on »
Bitter Taste Receptors Found in Lungs May Aid Asthma Patients by HealthFinder Posted Sun 24 Oct 2010 10:00am of the bronchus in the lungs was so unexpected that we were at first quite skeptical ourselves," said the study's senior author, Dr. Stephen B. Liggett, professor of medicine and physiology Read on »
Trach changed by Strapples Patient Expert Posted Fri 07 Jan 2011 12:00am the hole in my neck where the tube goes, second one is my trachea leading to my bronchus and third is the bronchial enterances. The fourth one is actually a surgical towel because Read on »
Health Headlines - March 4 by Meredy Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted Fri 04 Mar 2011 12:01am led, and as the university was investigating whether he had lied on a federal grant application.-----Surgeons Announce First Artificial Bronchus GraftIn a world-first, French surgeons say they successfully grafted an artificial bronchus into a 78-year-old patient with lung cancer. A bronchus is a main branch of the airway that carries air to the lungs.The Read on »
Cigarette Smoking and Lung Cancer by Dr. Nagaraj Posted Mon 09 Nov 2009 8:49pm and bronchus cancer cases and 160 390 people died of this disease in the USA. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that most cases of lung cancer are directly attributable Read on »
Retained objects -- anesthesia related by David Smith, MD Posted Thu 05 Aug 2010 12:00am the trachea near the right mainstem bronchus).  The typical nasopharyngeal airway has no radio-opaque strip, RFID tag, or suture tail.  Anesthesia devices are not typically “counted” so Read on »