A new University of Gothenburg study has paved the way for the first drug treatment for sleep apnea. Compared to before receiving the treatment, breathing pauses decreased with on average more than 20 per hour for patients ...
Apr 14, 2022
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Very premature babies need extra oxygen and mechanical intervention to breathe, but this damages their lungs, causing a chronic lung disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). These babies have smaller and weaker lungs ...
Mar 30, 2022
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A real-time electronic decision support system helped clinicians at community hospitals provide best practice care for emergency department patients with pneumonia, resulting in decreased intensive care unit admission, more ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who qualified for, but did not receive, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) due to a shortage of resources during the height of the pandemic died in the hospital, despite being ...
Feb 25, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Former and current electronic cigarette use is associated with higher odds of developing wheezing-related respiratory symptoms, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in the American Journal of Respiratory ...
Feb 21, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for metabolic syndrome (MetS) and hypertension (HTN) after delivery, according to a study published online Feb. 11 in the American ...
Feb 11, 2022
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Smoking cannabis leads to lung damage, but in a different way from tobacco, new University of Otago research has found.
Feb 3, 2022
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New lung research from an international team of scientists could offer doctors a new way to detect and monitor progressive lung diseases—and may also shed light on the fundamental causes of those conditions.
Feb 1, 2022
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The global burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a group of common lung conditions that affects more than 300 million people, could be significantly reduced with a simple health assessment, concludes a large-scale ...
Jan 11, 2022
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New recommendations are available to help guide physicians who must determine when and how to treat infants, children and adolescents with post-prematurity respiratory disease (PPRD). The American Thoracic Society has published ...
Dec 21, 2021
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