Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

The dominant rationale to generate new (and to assess old) anticancer chemotherapeutic agents is to determine their cell-autonomous effects — that is, their capacity to reduce the growth ...

Fluid dynamics is the study of the motion of liquids, gases and plasmas. Flow is dependent on the intrinsic properties of the matter itself, such as compressibility, viscosity and density. Example ...

Over time, pleural diseases can develop as a result. When you breathe, your lungs move against your chest wall. The pleura, which covers the rib cage as well as your lungs, produces fluid that acts as ...

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