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What is Farmer's Lung?

You may mistake acute or sub-acute farmer's lung for the flu, because many of the symptoms are the same. Chronic farmer's lung symptoms can be cont...

Respiratory Failure

Respiratory failure is a condition in which your lungs have a hard time loading your blood with oxygen or removing carbon dioxide. Your doctor puts...

Lung Cancer Symptoms: what You Should Know

These problems usually happen because of blocked breathing passages or because the cancer has spread farther into the lung, nearby areas, or other ...

Lung Cancer Surgery

Surgery is the preferred treatment for patients with early stage non-small- cell lung cancer, or NSCLC. A lobectomy removes the lobe that has a can...

What Causes Lung Cancer?

Even one cigarette a day puts you at risk for lung cancer. People who don’t smoke have a 20%-30% higher risk for lung cancer if they’re around seco...

Types of Lung Cancer

Lung cancers are broadly classified into two types: small cell lung cancers (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). SCLC comprises about 10...

Kidney Stones

How does your doctor know if you really do have a kidney stone? Pregnant women should get an ultrasound rather than a CT scan in the first trimeste...

Intravenous Pyelogram

An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is a type of X-ray that looks at your kidneys and bladder and the ducts (ureters) that connect them. You also may ne...

Seeing a Doctor for Infertility: Questions and Treatments

When you and your partner see your doctor to talk about problems getting pregnant, it helps to do some planning on the topics you'd like to bring u...

Understanding Infertility: Symptoms and Causes

Are you trying to have a baby but pregnancy just isn't happening? The main symptom of infertility is not getting pregnant. The main reason for infe...

Tubal Ligation Reversal

This lets them look at your fallopian tubes and decide if reversal surgery is possible. If they decide it's OK to do the reversal, your doctor then...

Sperm FAQ

To meet the waiting egg, semen must travel from the vagina to the fallopian tubes, a tough journey that few sperm survive. Is there anything you ca...