Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) occurs when a large, negative intrathoracic pressure is generated against an obstructed upper airway, causing fluid to shift into the lung interstitium.

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

Fudan University has disclosed phosphatidylcholine:ceramide cholinephosphotransferase 2 (SGMS2; SMS2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, atherosclerosis, dry eye, pulmonary ...

Severe AMS requires immediate descent to lower altitudes (2,000 - 4,000 feet [610-1,220 meters]). There are two other severe forms of altitude illness, High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) and High ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.

Altitude sickness, also known as Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), occurs when the body struggles to adjust to lower oxygen ...

A South Carolina man on death row has chosen death by firing squad as his method of execution, his lawyer said Friday. If his ...

Three of the 4 rabbits so treated showed no pulmonary edema on post-mortem examination at twenty-nine days and had normal tracheas and lungs. On the basis of the findings in experimental pulmonary ...

There was no difference among the three groups in age, sex or primary diagnosis. Pulmonary edema before cardiac arrest occurred frequently in all three groups but did not correlate well with the ...

Yokozuna was one of the best big men in WWE during the 1990s, but as his weight got out of control, it led to an early end of such a successful life.