Respiratory Tract Diseases: News and Research on Cough

MeSH tree: C08.618.248

Health informatics

Improved cough-detection tech can help with health monitoring

Researchers have improved the ability of wearable health devices to accurately detect when a patient is coughing, making it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks. The ...

Health

Q and A: How belly breathing benefits your body, mind

From the day we're born, we know how to breathe correctly. That means letting the diaphragm—the large, thin muscle just below the rib cage—do the work of drawing air into the lungs and letting it out. It's known as diaphragmatic ...

Health

Managing respiratory illness at home

According to U.S. health officials, the number of acute respiratory illnesses causing people to seek medical care remains at a high level. Seasonal influenza activity, in particular, remains elevated across the country.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Unknown disease in DR Congo kills at least 27

An unidentified disease has killed at least 27 people in just over a month in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials said on Wednesday.

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