New disease, old story

Article Abstract:

A report of a new occupational disease illustrates the fact that medicine is not practiced in a social vacuum. The report documents cases of interstitial lung disease at a nylon flocking plant. The incidence of this disease in the plant was about 50 times higher than in the general population. The company that owned the plant tried to prevent the medical researcher who uncovered the disease from presenting the findings at a scientific meeting. The researcher was also fired from his job at the hospital where he worked and he subsequently sued the hospital, the university affiliated with the hospital and the company that owned the nylon plant.

Investigations, Diseases, Lung diseases, Interstitial, Interstitial lung diseases, Textile workers

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Everyone sang

Article Abstract:

A doctor's experiences in the Vietnam War may have fueled his search to explain a common cause of death there. As a young doctor in Vietnam, Roger Bone watched many seriously wounded young men die of what he called Da Nang lung. His curiosity about Da Nang lung led him to specialize in pulmonology after the war and to develop the idea of immunologic dissonance as the imbalance that leads to massive inflammatory response and death. Bone, who is dying of cancer, has also written of his own experiences with dying.

Causes of, Inflammation, Inflammation mediators, Bacterial infections, Multiple organ failure

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Changing the subject: ethical principles for everyone in health care

Article Abstract:

About 150 people debated the merits of the Tavistock principles, a set of ethical principles published in draft form in 1999. The principles are designed to govern all medical personnel, including those who work in groups.

Analysis, Medical ethics

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