COVID-19 preprint data rapidly influenced critical care practice
Credit: ATS Dec. 15, 2020-- In a new research letter published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of ...
Tag: Pulmonary/Respiratory Medicine
TU Graz develops screening system for lung sound analysis
The prototype of a lung sound recording system developed at TU Graz (Austria) allows high-quality recordings of lung sounds, which ...
Doctors use existing treatment earlier to save the lives of Covid-19 patients
Credit: Lancaster University The lives of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 are being saved by doctors who are using an existing ...
COVID-19 vaccine candidate tested preclinically at UAB nears first clinical test in people
Maryland-based Altimmune Inc. has submitted an Investigational New Drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to commence a ...
Cooking with wood may cause lung damage
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - Advanced imaging with CT shows that people who cook with ...
Animal-free method predicts nanoparticle toxicity for safer industrial materials
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Our lungs are exposed to a multitude of hazardous airborne particles on a daily basis. Nanoparticles, ...
Study: COVID-19 infection combined with blood clots worsen patient outcomes
Researchers at UC San Diego Health connect blood clots to an increased risk of death from COVID-19Credit: UC San Diego ...
Adipose tissue may be the source of inflammatory factors that aggravate COVID-19
Preliminary results of patient tissue analysis show that the virus infects adipocytes and alters the quantity of signaling molecules released ...
Antibody cocktails at low doses could be more effective at treating COVID-19
Credit: University of North Carolina/Megan May Pairs of antibodies may be more effective than single antibodies at preventing and treating ...
UTEP researcher studies effects of teen vaping on the brain and behavior
Vaping among adolescents continues to be a public health crisis throughout the nationCredit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications EL ...
Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Cell Stem Cell UCLA researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human ...
One step for fibrosis, one giant leap for scleroderma
Lysyl oxidase plays several important roles in promoting fibrosis in patients with scleroderma and is a potential biomarker of treatment ...
Two anti-inflammatory compounds shown to be capable of accelerating recovery from COVID-19
Monoclonal antibody tested by researchers at University of São Paulo and experimental drug given to patients in Italy by University ...
Lung ultrasound training to help rural emergency medicine providers diagnose COVID-19
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson-led tele-ultrasound training program for lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) will enable rural ...