News tagged with respiratory diseases
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Preterm labor powerhouse therapy offers promise for inflammatory diseases
Magnesium sulfate is given to many pregnant women to treat preterm labor and preeclampsia and was recently shown to prevent cerebral palsy; however little is known about how it works. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...
Inflammatory disorders
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Shared pathway links Lou Gehrig's disease with spinal muscular atrophy
Researchers of motor neuron diseases have long had a hunch that two fatal diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), might somehow be linked. A new study confirms that this link exists.
Medical research
Sep 27, 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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New Otago collaboration brings oral TB vaccine for humans closer
Researchers in New Zealand are inching closer to the development of the first effective oral vaccine to protect against tuberculosis - a disease which still kills more people worldwide than any other bacterial disease.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Inner city infants have different patterns of viral respiratory illness than infants in the suburbs
Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available online, resear ...
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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Qatari with SARS-like virus on artificial lung: UK hospital
A Qatari man suffering from a mystery respiratory virus from the same family as the deadly disease SARS is on an artificial lung to keep him alive, a British hospital said Tuesday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 25, 2012 |
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Revealing the 'silent epidemic' of coal's health hazards
(Phys.org)—Coal kills. That's the message of "The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health" by Alan H. Lockwood, MD, University at Buffalo emeritus professor of neurology.
Health
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Researchers target physiological factors that lead to asthma attack
A new study that identifies ways to reduce the factors that lead to an asthma attack gives hope to asthma sufferers. A UCSF researcher and his colleagues believe they have found a way to help asthma sufferers by impeding ...
Inflammatory disorders
Sep 17, 2012 |
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Indoor marijuana grow operations pose healthy threat
(Medical Xpress)—Houses and other buildings used to grow marijuana indoors contain high levels of mold, which could pose a health threat to residents living there and law enforcement agents investigating them, according ...
Health
Sep 17, 2012 |
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Biggest European health study identifies key priorities in 26 cities
Researchers have announced the results of the largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe – including five British urban centres.
Health
Sep 16, 2012 |
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Cystic fibrosis patients of low SES are less likely to be accepted for lung transplant
Adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) have a greater chance of not being accepted for lung transplant after undergoing initial evaluation, according to a new study.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 14, 2012 |
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Despite 1993 cases, hantavirus remains mostly a mystery
In his 30-plus years as a doctor, Bruce Tempest had never seen anything like it.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 12, 2012 |
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An advance toward a flu-fighting nasal spray
In an advance toward development of a nasal spray that protects against infection with influenza and spread of the disease, scientists are reporting identification of a substance that activates the first-line ...
Medications
Sep 12, 2012 |
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Team shows how childhood viral infection leads to increased risk for allergic asthma as adult
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have shown in an animal model that a common childhood virus disables the normal ...
Immunology
Sep 12, 2012 |
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Antibiotic therapy improves moderate exacerbations of mild-to-moderate COPD
Antibiotic treatment with amoxicillin/clavulanate improves moderate exacerbations in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and significantly prolongs the time between exacerbations, according ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 07, 2012 |
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