Matters of the heart can sometimes be resolved from within. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, caused by a thickening of the arterial walls and narrowing of the lumen can be fatal if left untreated. The use of vasodilators ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Lung infections with the influenza virus or a coronavirus more frequently result in severe disease progression in older people. This is due to an excessive inflammatory reaction that causes damage to the lung tissue. The ...
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Researchers across the globe continue their endeavors to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying COVID-19 infection and the pneumonia and lung damage occasionally associated with it. As part of these endeavors, ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Many who experience what is now called "long COVID" report feeling brain fog, breathless, fatigued and limited in doing everyday things, often lasting weeks and months post-infection. Using functional MRI with inhaled xenon ...
Jun 28, 2022
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NUS scientists have discovered a novel property of a protein found in human lungs that could lead to the development of biologic drugs to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a debilitating, progressive lung ...
Apr 25, 2022
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Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences, but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to Rutgers researchers.
Apr 14, 2022
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Silica exposure is a driving force behind rising rates of coal workers' pneumoconiosis, according to a new study published by occupational health experts at the University of Illinois Chicago and their collaborators.
Apr 12, 2022
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An inhalable "aerogel" loaded with DNA that encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein successfully induces an immune response against COVID-19 in the lungs of mice, according to new research conducted at Pennsylvania State ...
Mar 16, 2022
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the human microbiome—the collection of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on and within us—significantly contributes to our health. Indeed, several recent studies have demonstrated ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—COPD for short—is one of the most common diseases of the lung. It affects almost 300 million people worldwide, of which about three million die every year. A collective term for chronic ...
Jan 14, 2022
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