Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have demonstrated in a new study, published earlier this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight, how diabetes contributes to mortality from MERS-CoV infections, and the finding could shed light on why other respiratory illnesses like the flu or pneumonia might strike those with diabetes more severely.
As part of an effort to improve long-term outcomes, a national team led by a researcher at Penn Medicine has launched a study--funded by a $9.8 million grant from the NIH--to better understand clinical and biological processes that occur after transplant and lead to the development of these complications.
Following today’s release of the World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2019, the American Thoracic Society joins the WHO in calling for redoubled efforts to end the global TB pandemic by 2030, the goal set by the global community in the United Nations Political Declaration to End Tuberculosis on Sept. 26, 2018.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center physicians are using a new innovation designed to help diagnose small peripheral lung nodules with greater precision and accuracy. Auris Health’s Monarch™ Platform offers a flexible robotic endoscope that doctors use to navigate deep into the lungs and obtain tissue samples for biopsy to determine if lung disease or cancer is present.
随着可能与电子蒸汽烟相关的死亡占据了新闻头条，人们对电子蒸汽烟的影响及相关的肺部疾病越发感到担忧。卫生官员担心电子蒸汽烟与美国多州发生的死亡病例之间可能 存在关联。尽管还不确定造成肺部损伤的原因，但在等待对肺相关死亡病例的激增展开进一步调查之际，美国疾病控制与预防中心已经发出停用电子蒸汽烟的警告。
与电子蒸汽烟相关的肺损伤的病理学研究尚处于早期阶段，但是 于《新英格兰医学杂志》 发表的一项由Mayo Clinic领导的研究发现，电子蒸汽烟引起的肺部损伤最有可能是由有毒化学烟雾的直接毒性或组织破坏所致。
بالتزامن مع عناوين الأخبار السائدة عن حالات الوفاة المتعلقة بتدخين السيجارة الإلكترونية، يتزايد القلق بشأن آثار تدخين السيجارة الإلكترونية وأمراض الرئة المصاحبة له. شعر المسؤولون عن الصحة بالقلق تجاه وجود صلة محتملة بين تدخين السيجارة الإلكترونية وعدد من حالات الوفاة التي قد وقعت في عدة ولايات في الولايات المتحدة. وبينما لم يكن واضحًا بالضرورة السبب الذي أدى إلى تلف الرئة، فقد أصدرت المراكز المسؤولة عن مكافحة الأمراض والوقاية منها تحذيرًا لإيقاف تدخين السيجارة الإلكترونية بانتظار إجراء المزيد من التحقيقات عن الزيادة المفاجئة في حالات الوفاة المتعلقة بأمراض الرئة.
Com as mortes possivelmente relacionadas ao uso de cigarros eletrônicos dominando as manchetes dos jornais, existe um receio crescente sobre seus efeitos e doenças pulmonares associadas. Os oficiais de saúde estão preocupados com a possibilidade de haver uma ligação entre o uso de cigarros eletrônicos e diversas mortes.
New research shows that the more a baby weighs at birth relative to its gestational age the higher the risk they will suffer from childhood food allergy or eczema, although not hay fever.
Today, the CDC is expected to release new recommendations for evaluation and treatment of patients with suspected vaping-associated lung injury (VALI). The document -- “Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Suspected E-cigarette Use, or Vaping, Associated Lung Injury — United States, October 2019” -- was written in concert with national experts identified from professional medical societies, including the ATS.
The findings of the study by the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research underscore the need for culturally targeted interventions to prevent and reduce tobacco use, manage chronic disease and screen for lung cancer.
In adolescent and adult patients with cystic fibrosis taking lumacaftor-ivacaftor (ORKAMBI®), the combination drug appears to improve lung function and body weight and reduce the need for intravenous antibiotic treatment, according to a French study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Vaping-associated lung injury is a condition characterized by lung inflammation and damage that can lead to respiratory failure and death. Symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, and chest pain, as well as fatigue, fever, and weight loss. Many patients report gastrointestinal symptoms too. Healthcare experts are urging people to avoid vaping because the exact cause of vaping-associated lung injury is unknown. People who are using vaping products — especially young people, who have been most frequently affected by the condition — should closely monitor their health and seek immediate medical care if they develop symptoms.
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is the recipient of a major research funding award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support its lung-on-a-chip technology as a model to develop chemical injury treatments.
Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., whose discoveries on how cells respond to low oxygen levels have the potential to result in treatments for a variety of illnesses, today was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet. He shares the award with scientists William G. Kaelin, Jr., M.D. of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Peter J. Ratcliffe of Oxford University.
Researchers in Japan have identified a genetic mutation that causes a severe lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) by killing the cells lining the lung’s airways. The study, which will be published October 10 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), suggests that protecting these cells by inhibiting a cell death pathway called necroptosis could be a new therapeutic approach to treating IPF.
La investigación sobre la anatomía patológica de la lesión pulmonar asociada al uso del cigarrillo electrónico está en etapas iniciales, pero, de acuerdo con un estudio llevado adelante por Mayo Clinic que se publicó en el The New England Journal of Medicine, las lesiones pulmonares por uso del cigarrillo electrónico posiblemente son producto de la intoxicación directa o del daño en los tejidos provocado por los vapores químicos nocivos.
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