http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-copd-over-diagnosed-uninsured-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:42 EST news288433175 African-Americans are less likely than whites and women are more likely than men to have had a prior diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) regardless of their current disease severity, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gender-diagnosis-copd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:30 EST news288368244 Bronchiectasis is independently associated with an increased mortality risk in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD, according to a new study from researchers in Spain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-bronchiectasis-mortality-moderate-to-severe-copd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:01 EST news279472696 The research was undertaken by Canterbury Christ church University's Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, following a grant of £130,000 from The Dunhill Medical Trust. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-large-scale-group-older-people.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:10:01 EST news278750216 Female smokers have a much greater risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) in recent years than did female smokers 20 or 40 years ago, reflecting changes in smoking behavior according to a Special Article published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The increase in risk of death from lung cancer and COLD in female smokers has been large enough to completely offset improvements in longevity from medical advances that have reduced death rates in the rest of the population over the last 50 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lung-cancer-death-risen-women.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:31:29 EST news278184679 Herpes zoster, or shingles, does not increase the risk of cancer in the general population, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cancer-people-shingles.html Cancer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:02 EST news267097036 A protein critical to development appears to have a grave impact on lungs exposed to smoking and air pollution, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-protein-potential-treatment-adult-pulmonary.html Medical research Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:05:54 EST news238075546 Despite recent advances in the treatment of heart rhythm disturbances, mortality and morbidity rates associated withy atrial fibrillation (AF) remain "unacceptably high", according to a new report. The report, prepared jointly by the German Competence Network on Atrial Fibrillation (AFNET) and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), will be published at the EHRA EUROPACE 2011 congress in Madrid from 26-29 June. AF, says the report, is emerging as "the new epidemic" in cardiovascular disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-atrial-fibrillation-approaches-epidemic-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:44:12 EST news228282221