#lung-cancer

#lung-cancer

Home Improvement Use your HVAC system to your advantage.Plus, how to DIY a portable air cleaner.Last week, smoke from Canadian wildfires worsened air quality inNortheastern cities from Washington, D.C., to Boston.While the smoke has since dissipated, experts warn it will return - and get worse, according to an article in USA Today.

Peter Simonischek, an eminent Austrian theater actor who found international fame as the shambolic prankster and adoring father in Maren Ade's Oscar-nominated 2016 German film Toni Erdmann, died on May 29 at his home in Vienna.He was 76.The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Brigitte Karner, said.Mr. Simonischek was a member of the Burgtheater, the venerable Viennese institution otherwise known as the Burg, one of the oldest and largest ensemble theaters in the world.

Windows down, music blasting as we drive over the mountains that divide the Sonoma and Napa valleys.My sister and I have memorized these mountains, as we've been making this commute between our two homes for 12 years.Through every life change, this drive has stayed consistent: 30 minutes of forced time together to say anything or simply sit in silence, 30 minutes to strengthen our bond forever.

Redd Holt, a drummer who in the 1960s, before jazz fusion became a popular term, struck a beat that had both the kick of funk and the delicacy of jazz on a number of surprisingly popular instrumental tunes, died on May 23 in Chicago.He was 91.The death, at a hospital, was caused by complications of lung cancer, his son Reginald said.

Rita Lee, a convention-flouting titan of Brazilian music who emerged with the seminal experimental band Os Mutantes and went on to become a solo star known widely as her country's Queen of Rock, died on Monday at her home in Sao Paulo.She was 75.Her death was announced in a statement posted on her Instagram account.

Love to You, Donna Summer debuts on Saturday, May 20, on HBO.HBO This may sound odd now, but when Donna Summer first hit America's pop music charts in 1975, it was a steamy, scandalous moment.Her first hit, "Love to Love You Baby," featured Summer making noises of pleasure which sounded seriously sexual, inspiring the BBC to initially refuse to play the record and interviewers to ask what exactly she was doing while tracking the vocals.

WASHINGTON A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and for the first time has shown that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick.The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of air and ground crew members they knew who had cancer.

WASHINGTON A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and for the first time has shown that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick.The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of air and ground crew members they knew who had cancer.

A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and the ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch their aircraft.he data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of air and ground crew members they knew who had cancer.

Dr Anant Patel, consultant respiratory physician, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (Image: Royal Free Charity) Lung cancer treatment could begin a month earlier for many patients when a new service gets off the ground.An appeal has been launch to create London's first one-stop NHS lung cancer diagnostic service at the Royal Free Hospital.

Brazil's president hails Lee, a singer central to the politically charged Tropicalia movement, as ahead of her time'.Renowned Brazilian rock singer and songwriter Rita Lee, an icon of the Tropicalia artistic movement, has died after a two-year battle with lung cancer, her family said on Tuesday.She was 75.

I couldn't help thinking how different his vision of America is compared to a certain ex-President who had been on a whistle-stop tour to Ireland.Donald Trump's America is one of division and hatred.Springsteen's America is the opposite of that.Had Trump decided to show up last night as some sort of publicity stunt he might have seen welcome signs on the stage similar to the home-made sign a fan handed up to Springsteen at his a 2018 concert at Munich's Olympic Stadium and which the singer waved proudly to the crowd in Germany: 'F*** TRUMP, WE WANNA DANCE WITH THE BOSS."

P eople living in Tower Hamlets are the most likely in London to be admitted to hospital and die with a lung condition, new figures show.Analysis by Asthma + Lung found that residents of the borough had the highest rate of admission and death from lung conditions including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), flu and pneumonia.

NEW YORK U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday.Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.The preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based on survey responses from more than 27,000 adults.

STILL PICTURES: On Photography and Memory, by Janet Malcolm The field is all but clear now, and it seems safe to say that the two most important long-form journalists this country produced in the second half of the last century were Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm.Their differences are more evident than their similarities: the cold Los Angeles burn of Didion's work, the measured New York ambiguity of Malcolm's.

The long-awaited cancer vaccine revolution is getting a little closer to reality.New data from Moderna Inc. and Merck & Co. suggest that after decades of failures, researchers are finally figuring out the right way to design a vaccine that can teach immune cells how to recognize and combat tumors.

People with HIV remain at greater risk of lung cancer, says a major new study.Experts say routine screening for the disease could help pick it up at an earlier stage.It's long been known that people with HIV are at greater risk of lung cancer.This risk has fallen over the last couple of decades with the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy.

A record number of cancer patients received treatment last year, but waiting lists were also the longest ever, according to NHS figures.More than 320,000 people received cancer care in the 12 months from November 2021, up by more than 8,000 on the same period from November 2018  the last pre-pandemic comparison, the health service said.

It was an afternoon in late August 2019 when the poet and art critic Peter Schjeldahl first got the call from his doctor with the news that his lung cancer had spread.He was driving to meet his wife, Brooke, at their country house at Bovina, in the Catskills.Patsy Cline's Walkin' After Midnight played on the car radio and Schjeldahl had just hit mile 81 of the New York State Thruway.

The new law, which goes into effect in January, requires Medi-Cal insurance plans to "make a good faith effort" to contract with cancer centers recognized by the National Cancer Institute - which often have access to the latest treatments - or other qualifying cancer centers.Authored by Democratic  Sen. Anthony Portantino of Glendale, it was originally drafted to mandate that Medi-Cal plans add at least one of these cancer centers to their provider networks, but negotiations resulted in a scaled-back version, only requiring health plans to try to add a cancer center.

A teenage girl who is undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer will continue her efforts to do 10,000 keepie-ups to raise money for a cancer charity.Isobel Hemmings, 15, from Essex, was diagnosed with germ cell cancer in May after spotting a large lump in her stomach.Germ cell cancer often occurs in teenagers, and germ cell tumours develop from cells that produce eggs or sperm so they often appear on the ovaries or testes, but can develop anywhere in the body.