Healing Process Found To Backfire In Lung Patients, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Study
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2008) — 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.