The American Thoracic Society, medical section of The American Lung Association, has made its journal, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine available on-line. Available issues for AJRCCM begin in July 1997. The journal is made available through Stanford University's Highwire Press. After the free trial period which ends September 1998, full text will only be available...

This Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Web site contains a press release about the recent findings from BNL scientists that smoking reduces levels of a critical enzyme (MAO B) not only in the brain, but in the peripheral organs as well (kidneys, heart, lungs, and spleen). The press release includes images of whole body PET scans showing the distribution of the radiolabeled enzyme in the bodies...