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UT scientists discover link between protein and lung disease
More than 12 million Americans are currently diagnosed with this incurable illness, which is the fourth leading cause of death, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute reports. In the United State...
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Read moreNew vaccine shows promise for COPD patients at risk for pneumonia
Because pneumonia disproportionately affects patients with COPD and frequently causes exacerbations, the Centers for Disease Control currently recommend that all adults with COPD receive the 23-valent...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSevere COPD may lead to cognitive impairment
Researchers compared cognitive performance in over 4,150 adults with and without COPD and found that individuals with severe COPD had significantly lower cognitive function than those without, even af...
Health and Medicine | Read moreMuscle deterioration in patients with lung disease seen connected to heightened carbon dioxide levels in the blood
The incidence of lung diseases continues to increase in the world’s populations. For example, one in seven persons in the UK is affected by some form of chronic lung disease, most commonly chronic obs...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSupervised exercise therapy can lead to improvements in COPD symptoms
Those suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often complain that exercise is too exhausting and leaves them breathless. An article in the current issue of the New England Journal ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreCOPD-related problems hard to swallow
In the first issue for April of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Roxann Diez Gross, Ph.D., and colleagues report that patients with mode...
Health and Medicine | Read moreChanges in gene may stunt lung development in children
Study authors, led by George Leikauf, Ph.D., professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and Holger Schulz, M.D., professor of ...
Life Sciences | Read moreGenetic irregularities linked to higher risk of COPD among smokers
The findings come from the first-ever genome-wide association study of COPD and suggest that those who carry the markers may be able to reduce their risk if they quit smoking before the first symptoms...
Life Sciences | Read moreHelium helps lung patients breathe easier
New research published in the international journal Chest, by Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed a mix of 60% helium and 40% oxygen during...
Health and Medicine | Read moreVitamin D deficiency may increase risk of colds, flu
Vitamin D may be an important way to arm the immune system against disorders like the common cold, report investigators from the University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver) School of Medicine, Massachus...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreBody’s Defenses May Worsen Chronic Lung Diseases in Smokers
In a preclinical research study, UC environmental health scientists have identified a link between cigarette smoke and activation of a specific cellular receptor (NKG2D) critical to immune system acti...
Health and Medicine | Read moreLong-term use of popular inhalers increases risk of pneumonia for COPD patients
The study appears in this month's issue of Archives of Internal Medicine and focuses on the incidence of pneumonia in patients with COPD who were exposed to inhaled corticosteroid drugs, either a...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew therapeutic properties of N-acetyl-L-cysteine discovered
The team headed by Luis González Guijarro, biochemistry and molecular biology professor at the UAH, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical firm Farmasierra S.L., has developed a pilot study of the e...
Life Sciences | Read moreSmoking and solid fuel use in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths
If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew beta-blocker to offer hope to heart and lung sufferers
In the UK, 2.6 million people suffer from heart disease and most are able to have their symptoms effectively managed with the prescription of beta-blocker drugs which stop adrenaline from making the h...
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