Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable condition marked by breathlessness, chronic sputum production and cough, claiming three million lives globally each year —particularly in low-resource countries — and is expected to increase due to aging populations and ongoing exposure to risks like tobacco smoke.
Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies experts contribute to Surgeon General’s new report “Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities” published on Nov. 19
The flu might be a miserable weeklong illness and inconvenience for many people, but it can have serious consequences for older adults.
The study findings point to the potential of interleukin-13 antibodies — approved for use in humans — as a treatment to protect against bacterial pneumonia in patients with zinc deficiency.
The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed to maintain a consistent growth rate throughout its life cycle. These findings, reported by researchers on November 15 in the journal Nature Microbiology, overturn core beliefs of bacterial cell biology and hint at why the deadly pathogen so readily outmaneuvers our immune system and antibiotics.
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center are the only New Jersey hospitals to achieve the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s (ELSO) Gold Level Center of Excellence in Life Support Award.
Results from a new animal study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology found that maternal exposure to e-cigarette residues, with or without nicotine, affected offspring’s immune response later in life.
More than 10% of high school students in the U.S. smoke or use other tobacco products — with most using e-cigarettes, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Rutgers Health study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments.
Expert pitch on smoke dangers from wildfires
At six years old, Luke Bucciarelli (pronounced BOO-cha-relli) already knows he wants to be a surgeon when he grows up. But not just any surgeon – a thoracic surgeon; someone who operates on organs in the chest, including the lungs, esophagus, trachea and heart.
Urgent action is needed, to prevent pneumonia deaths among high-risk groups, particularly children younger than five years and older people, noted the American Thoracic Society and its Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) partners. New effective preventive interventions are available, but these are still inaccessible in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Alcohol use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and remained elevated even after the pandemic ended, according to a large nationally representative Keck Medicine of USC study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
November is lung cancer awareness month and according to the American Cancer Society, nearly 130,000 lives are lost each year to lung cancer. ...
Whooping cough is making a comeback, and medical providers say the highly contagious bacterial infection that causes severe coughing fits is preventable. During the COVID-19 pandemic, whooping cough, also known as pertussis, declined dramatically.
Husker engineer Eric Markvicka is developing a new approach for detecting acute exacerbations of chronic conditions.
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