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An experimental thyroid hormone treatment could block lung failure and speed up recovery in patients with severe cases of coronavirus, new research suggests. Scientists say those in respiratory distress, often lack T3, which reduces inflammation and plays a role in cells along the lining of the lungs absorbing fluids To see if it would work … Read more
Disabled councillor with blue badge for lung condition defends TikTok video showing him dancing and doing Michael Jackson-style moonwalk as ‘a bit of fun’ because ‘the air was good’ Lee Jeavons, former deputy leader of Walsall Council, was seen in TikTok videos Another showed him dancing to the Men In Black soundtrack in a car … Read more
Wisconsin mother, 52, is fighting for her life as she waits for a DOUBLE lung transplant after spending 45 days on a ventilator as she says ‘this coronavirus attacked me in every way possible’ Carmen Lerma, 52, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-July She was admitted to Ascension St. Francis hospital shortly … Read more
Nearly two-thirds of coronavirus hospital patients are still suffering organ damage months after being discharged, a small study has warned. Oxford University experts found 60 per cent of patients had scarring or inflammation in their lungs three months after beating the virus. MRI scans showed 30 per cent had lasting damage to their kidney, 26 … Read more
Coronavirus swab gets stuck in patient’s LUNG when it snaps and falls into breathing tube put in her neck after surgery Swabs are designed to snap when put into a test tube but not during use The 51-year-old woman had a breathing tube in her neck after skull surgery Doctors had to fish out the … Read more
A pensioner died of lung cancer after treatment which ‘could have given him a few more years’ was delayed for three months because of coronavirus. Malachy Watkins, 73, from Stevenage, died 12 days ago after his cancer treatment, which should have restarted in March, was delayed for three months. His distraught wife Sheila, 71, told … Read more
An easyJet passenger with lung damage was hauled off a flight for not wearing a face mask as staff allegedly refused to accept his medical exemption without certification. Brian Spinks, from Falkirk, Scotland, boarded a flight from Luton to Edinburgh on Tuesday but was asked to leave the flight despite having a medical condition. The … Read more
Coronavirus patients who have been treated in hospital still suffer lung damage up to THREE MONTHS after returning home, study find Most coronavirus patients’ conditions improve within six weeks but some do not Austrian researchers tested coronavirus patients after they had left hospital More than half of those returning six weeks after discharge still had a … Read more
The British chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries is facing legal action after the family of a worker who died from terminal lung cancer claimed he was exposed to asbestos over a 34-year period. Christopher Lees, 79, who was an in-house healthy safety inspector at the company’s research plants, was unaware he was exposed to what he believes … Read more
Death rates from lung cancer have been declining sharply in the US due to recent advances in treatments, a new study suggests. Researchers found that fatality rates for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common lung cancer, have fallen by about 4.5 percent percent from 2001 through 2016. Additionally, the rate of cases of … Read more