Recent advances in addressing tuberculosis give hope for future
NIH officials describe 'banner year'Credit: NIAID WHAT: In September 2018, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...
Tag: Pulmonary/Respiratory Medicine
A new approach to calm that angry nose
Osaka University-led study shows that semaphorin protein induces allergic reactions and causes formation of nasal polyps in eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitisCredit: ...
Extreme difficulty breathing and swallowing linked to teen’s vaping?
Credit: Children's National Hospital WASHINGTON - A teenage girl with no hint of prior asthma or respiratory illness began to ...
Radiologists describe coronavirus imaging features
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (February 4, 2020) - In a special report published today in ...
ResMed, ATS Foundation Award $100,000 research grant to Claude Farah, PhD
COPD digital health researcher to study benefits of COPD patient remote monitoringCredit: ATS Feb. 3, 2020 - ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ...
A new treatment strategy against MERS
Licensed drugs effective in cellsCredit: Photo: Müller/Charité Joint press release by Charité and the DZIF First identified in 2012, the ...
Revealed an alteration related to the loss of effectiveness of a treatment in lung cancer
Credit: Montse Sánchez-Céspedes The Cancer Genetics Group of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, led by Montse Sánchez-Céspedes, together with ...
Bend and snap: New interventions for rib fractures
By stabilizing fractured and partially dislocated ribs, physicians can improve patient quality of life according to a new multicenter studyCredit: ...
Researchers solve protein structures to fight asthma
Credit: Anastasiia Gusach et al./Nature Communications Biophysicists from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases have ...
Sepsis associated with 1 in 5 deaths globally, double previous estimate
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16, 2020 - Twice as many people as previously believed are dying of sepsis worldwide, according ...
BPA replacement hinders heart function, study reveals
Credit: (University of Guelph) BPA's counterpart replacement BPS can hinder heart function within minutes of a single exposure, according to ...
Airway Therapeutics nets $15.5M to advance treatment of serious respiratory diseases
Initiating bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) clinical trial in very preterm infants in 2020Credit: Airway Therapeutics Initiating bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) clinical trial ...
Researchers develop universal flu vaccine that protects against 6 influenza viruses in mice
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A novel nanoparticle vaccine that combines two major influenza proteins is effective in providing broad, long-lasting ...
Vaping lung injury symptoms have been reported online for at least seven years
UC Riverside research used internet data mining to monitor health effects reported by electronic cigarette users over timeCredit: I. Pittalwala, ...
2017 San Diego wildfire increased pediatric ER visits for breathing problems
Credit: ATS Jan. 6, 2020--A small wildfire in San Diego County in 2017 resulted in a big uptick in children ...
Delivering TB vaccine intravenously dramatically improves potency, study shows
Credit: JoAnne Flynn, Ph.D., Alexander White, Pauline Maiello, and Mario Roederer, Ph.D. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 1, 2020 - Worldwide, more people ...
Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine
NIAID scientists report results from animal studyCredit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient disease, is the ...
Reducing mouse allergens may improve lung growth in asthmatic children
Cutting allergen exposure could lead to healthier childhoodsCredit: Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas ...
PET/CT plays role in lung adenocarcinoma management
AJR finds fluorodeoxyglucose PET, combined with high-resolution CT, has value for predicting invasive histopathologic subtypes of early lung adenocarcinomaCredit: American ...
Antiarrhythmic drug identified as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary ...