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Said to be ‘horrified’ by recent events The news about the missing submersible, Titan, which disappeared during a visit to the wreck of the Titanic is on many people’s minds and all over the media. Now, the story has reached the gaming world, as the indie horror title Iron Lung has seen its sales increase in the wake of the real-world incident. According to developer David Szymanski over on Twitter (via PC Gamer) there’s been a spike in the amount of units that have sold for the creepy, underwater game. Szymanski shows a…

Survival horror Iron Lung has seen a spike in sales due to the missing Titanic submarine. While rescue attempts continue for the missing Titanic submersible, gamers have been seeking out the indie horror game Iron Lung – a survival horror game set aboard a small submarine with limited capabilities, that’s currently stranded beneath an ocean of blood on an alien moon. However, the game’s developer David Szymanski said on Twitter that “this feels so wrong”. He added: “I feel kinda uncomfortable about it tbh.” “I definitely…

A daily pill may halve the risk of death for lung cancer patients with a particular type of genetic mutation who have undergone surgery, according to much awaited clinical trial results. The drug is called osimertinib, which AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals produces under the brand name Tagrisso. It has been used to treat later-stage lung cancer since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted it an accelerated approval in 2015. The trial findings were published on June 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine and…

A pill for lung cancer has delivered impressive results in newly published research over the weekend. The pill, called osimertinib, was found to cut the risk of dying in half over a five-year span in those who received it alongside surgery. The treatment is intended for patients whose tumors carry a relatively common type of mutation.Boogeyman Star Sophie Thatcher Wrote Howl's Moving Castle Fan Fiction | io9 InterviewOsimertinib was developed by the company AstraZeneca and is sold under the brand name Tagrisso. It belongs…

A pill has been shown to halve the risk of death from a certain type of lung cancer when taken daily after surgery to remove the tumor, according to clinical trial results presented on Sunday.The results were unveiled in Chicago at the largest annual conference of cancer specialists, hosted by the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO).​Lung cancer is the form of the disease that causes the most deaths, with approximately 1.8 million fatalities every year worldwide.​The treatment developed by the pharmaceutical…

As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it deteriorates. Enter the drone, for which researchers recently documented a milestone test in Science Robotics. After hundreds of practice flights, their drone carried a human donor lung on a five-minute journey from the roof of Toronto Western Hospital to Toronto General Hospital for a successful transplant. The trip can take 25…

The gold standard for storing lungs for transplant procedures has been to pack them in ice in coolers, which keeps them at roughly 4 °C (39 °F). But a look back at lung transplant research has revealed that there's an even better temperature at which to store donor lungs, which will dramatically improve the time during which they remain viable.The first lung transplant was conducted in 1963. Since that time, when lungs are removed from patients, they are packed in a cooler with ice and rushed to the location of the…

Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images Markiplier is adding a new accolade to his list of accomplishments with the upcoming horror film Iron Lung. Derived from his own script, Markiplier embraces the idea of taking the script into his own hands as not just the film’s star but also its director and financer.  Deadline reports that details for the plot are being kept mum for now, but the film is said to be based upon a popular horror game, also titled Iron Lung, by David Szymanski.  The content creator is no stranger to…

This is our new song Content creator Markiplier has announced that he’ll be writing, directing, and starring in a film based on David Szymanski’s short-form horror game, Iron Lung. Released in 2021, Iron Lung became a surprise hit. Oh, hey, I’m even quoted on the Steam page. I absolutely loved it, as it was everything short-form horror should be. It was short, inventive, and also horror. It was more atmospheric than scary, so some people told me they found it boring, which hurt my ego. My recommendations are a lot like…

A Spanish hospital has successfully completed what is believed to be the world’s first fully robotic lung transplant.  Surgeons at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona used a four-arm robot dubbed ‘Da Vinci’ to carry out the procedure. The patient was a 65-year-old man called Xavier, requiring a lung transplant due to pulmonary fibrosis, a life-threatening lung disease.   Typical lung transplants are highly invasive: a 30 cm incision must be made in the chest and multiple ribs…