Healing process found to backfire in lung patients
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 07:35
in Health & Medicine
A mechanism in the body which typically helps a person heal from an injury, may actually be causing patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to get worse, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and their collaborators have found...
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