The two most common chronic lung diseases claimed 3.6 million lives worldwide in 2015, according to a tally published Thursday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Aug 17, 2017
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More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published Monday.
Mar 6, 2017
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(HealthDay)—People along the southern stretch of the Mississippi River are more likely to die from heart problems than anywhere else in the United States.
Dec 13, 2016
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(HealthDay)—A diet inclusive of foods rich in fiber may fuel more successful aging, according to research published online June 1 in the Journals of Gerontology.
Jun 25, 2016
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Kentucky is well known for basketball and horses. Unfortunately, it is also well known as a "smoker's state" as more than one quarter of all Kentuckians smoke. That translates to poor health: we have the highest rate of ...
Mar 21, 2016
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A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian has found that the use of corticosteroids in mothers at risk for late preterm delivery significantly reduced ...
Feb 4, 2016
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People in good health don't usually think about breathing. But for the one in 10 Australians who have asthma and other respiratory diseases, research into inhalable medications to help them breathe more easily could change ...
Aug 18, 2015
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More than half of long-term smokers and ex-smokers who are considered disease-free because they passed lung-function tests have respiratory-related impairments when more closely evaluated with lung imaging, walking and quality-of-life ...
Jun 22, 2015
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This week, special guest-bloggers and Australian doctors-in-training, Rebecca Kelly and Tim Martin of the Australian Medical Students' Association, call for greater focus, discussion and action on the world's leading causes ...
May 12, 2015
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A diet high in whole grains and cereal fibers is associated with a reduced risk of premature death, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. The results also show cereal fibers to be associated ...
Mar 23, 2015
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