lungs
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What Do Hearts and Cells Have To Do With Our Cities?
Biological metaphors for the city abound in daily use. You may live close to an “arterial” road or in the “heart” of a metropolis. You may work in one of the city’s “nerve centres” or exercise in a park described as the city’s “lungs”. The ready use of such metaphors indicates an underlying naturalism in…
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Simple Invention Helps You Sober Up by Exhaling Alcohol
Scientists in Canada say they’ve found a new way to treat potentially life-threatening alcohol intoxication — by helping people literally breathe out the alcohol in their system. Their device, which is designed to allow people to hyperventilate safely, was found to speed up the clearance of alcohol from healthy volunteers three times faster in a…
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A Man Developed ‘Feather Duvet Lung’ After Getting New Bedding
A UK man’s innocent decision to change his bedding caused him to develop a strange, rare condition that left him gasping for air, his doctors say. In a new case study out Monday, they detail how the man came down with a rare form of allergy to the bird feathers that filled his new duvet…
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Aspirin, Strangely Enough, Might Protect Our Lungs From Air Pollution
A dose of aspirin can do more than just soothe your headache, a new study suggests — it might also protect your lungs from air pollution.