News tagged with pulmonologist
A text message a day keeps the asthma attack away
(Medical Xpress)—Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes. In a study by ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2013 |
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New Mayo software identifies and stratifies risk posed by lung nodules
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Mayo Clinic has developed a new software tool to noninvasively characterize pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a common type of cancerous nodule in the lungs. Results from a pilot study of ...
Cancer
Apr 08, 2013 |
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Team support for cessation in the workplace helped motivate cigarette smokers to quit
When smoking co-workers in the same team are placed on a cessation program, providing financial incentives to the team collectively in return for success of the smokers in the cessation program helped the smokers to quit ...
Health
Oct 18, 2012 |
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New patent on virtual guided-bronchoscopy system to help diagnose lung cancer
A team of researchers from the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the Pulmonology Research Group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research ...
Cancer
Oct 04, 2012 |
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Healthy lungs' microbes focus of study on cystic fibrosis
(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 ...
Medical research
Sep 27, 2012 |
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Improvements in technology help manage asthma
Inhalers count puffs. Peak-flow meters are read digitally. Nebulizers have shrunk to half their old size.
Immunology
Aug 03, 2012 |
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Revised ARDS definition sets out levels of severity
An international task force this week unveiled a revised definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a disease first recognized during the Vietnam War in casualties with limb injuries who had trouble breathing.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 22, 2012 |
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BUSM: Severe sepsis, new-onset AF associated with increased risk of hospital stroke, death
A recent study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) shows an increased risk of stroke and mortality among patients diagnosed with severe sepsis and new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) during hospitalization.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 13, 2011 |
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New study may lead to quicker diagnosis, improved treatment for fatal lung disease
One-fifth of all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension suffer with the fatal disease for more than two years before being correctly diagnosed and properly treated, according to a new national study led by researchers ...
Sleep apnea
Jul 11, 2011 |
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