Oxygen therapy does not improve survival in patients with heart attack symptoms, according to late-breaking research presented today in a Hot Line LBCT Session at ESC Congress and published in the NEJM.
Aug 28, 2017
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(HealthDay)—From 1991 to 2005, there was an increase in the duration of assisted ventilation among survivors of extremely preterm birth, but no improvement in lung function in childhood, according to a study published in ...
Jul 27, 2017
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Dr. Paul Harch, Clinical Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Edward Fogarty, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, report the case of the reversal ...
Jul 17, 2017
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The Villages Regional Hospital did not sweat its decision to add hyperbaric oxygen therapy in 2013.
Jun 29, 2017
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Photodynamic therapy is often used to treat brain tumors because of its specificity—it can target very small regions containing cancerous cells while sparing the normal cells around it from damage. It works by injecting ...
Jun 23, 2017
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Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. That's more than 16,000 children every day – and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple, ...
May 4, 2017
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A new study finds that delivery of oxygen via high-flow nasal tubes may help patients who experience exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
May 4, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Don't fall for products claiming to cure autism, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
Apr 13, 2017
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A new study finds that caffeine may protect the lungs from damage caused by prolonged oxygen therapy, such as oxygen supplementation given to premature babies. The article is the first of its kind to study the positive effects ...
Mar 9, 2017
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A clinician/scientist, who studies ways to make cord-blood transplants for leukemia and lymphoma patients safer and more effective, recently reported a new finding in the journal Blood. An accompanying editorial called the ...
Jan 5, 2017
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