http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A newly published study of patients with pulmonary fibrosis has discovered multiple genetic variations that should help with future efforts to treat the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-genetic-variation-contributes-pulmonary-fibrosis.html Genetics Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:48:54 EST news285263326 (HealthDay)—Lungs of heavy smokers can be donated safely for use in adult double-lung transplants, a new study contends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lungs-heavy-smokers-transplant.html Surgery Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:22:02 EST news278688110 (Medical Xpress)—Healthy people's lungs are home to a diverse community of microbes that differs markedly from the bacteria found in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. That's the result of new research from Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which has wide implications for treatment of cystic fibrosis and other lung diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-healthy-lungs-microbes-focus-cystic.html Medical research Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:43:53 EST news267957826 New research shows that lung transplant patients who receive the lungs of smokers have a better overall chance of survival than those who remain on waiting lists, despite the fact that they tend to survive for a shorter period after transplantation than those who receive the lungs of non-smokers. The findings, published in an Article Online First in The Lancet, may prove controversial following media reports in recent years describing how some transplant patients have died after receiving smokers' lungs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-policy-smokers-donor-pool-survival.html Other Mon, 28 May 2012 18:30:01 EST news257416567 Patients who have received a solid organ transplant, such as kidney, liver, heart or lung, have an overall cancer risk that is double that of the general population, with an increased risk for many different types of malignancies, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-recipients-transplants-broad-range-cancers.html Cancer Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:26:55 EST news239383608 Four patients now have new lungs thanks to a purpose-built machine used for the first time worldwide by Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Acquired for research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the new machine will contribute to more lung transplants in the long term. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-lungs-suitable-transplantation.html Other Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:42:50 EST news228652964 An analysis of data on heart and lung transplant recipients indicates that patients who had transplant surgery performed at nighttime did not have a significantly different rate of survival up to one year after organ transplantation, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nighttime-transplant-surgery-poorer-survival.html Other Tue, 31 May 2011 16:26:31 EST news226077965 'Healthy' smokers experience changes in the gene expression of their lungs similar to that suffered by smokers who have developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This is the conclusion of a new study, led by Catalan researchers, which confirms the crucial role that smoking plays in causing these alterations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-smokers-gene-patients-copd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 May 2011 10:27:05 EST news224155602