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- IMMUNOMODULATION & SURPRISING! IN SMOKE-INHALATION: Surprising results from Loyola study of smoke-inhalation patients
MAYWOOD, Ill. -- A Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study includes some unexpected findings about the immune systems of smoke-inhalation patients. Contrary to ...
- MEMO TO PEDIATRICIANS: -Allergy tests are no magic bullets for diagnosis
New report includes guidelines on whom and when to test An advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Scott Sicherer of Mt. Sinai Hospital in ...
- INFECTOLOGY, GERIATRIC MEDICINE & CARDIOVASCULAR RISK: -Statins may reduce mortality in patients hospitalized with influenza
DEC. 14, 2011 The two main ways to prevent and control influenza today are annual immunization and antiviral drugs. A team of investigators has found that statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, ...
- SLEEP APNEA: -Innovative approaches help sleep apnea sufferers benefit from CPAP
People with obstructive sleep apnea are more likely to stick to prescribed treatment when a partner or parent is involved with their treatment, according to a team of sleep researchers. ...
- STIMULATION HYPOGLOSAL NERVE: -Hypoglossal nerve stimulation increases airflow during sleep in obstructive sleep apnea
Hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HGNS) produced marked dose-related increases in airflow in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients without arousing them from sleep, according to a new study from the ...
- PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: -Heart rate recovery predicts clinical worsening in pulmonary hypertension
Heart rate recovery at one minute after a six-minute walking distance (6MWD) test is highly predictive of clinical worsening and time to clinical worsening in patients with idiopathic pulmonary ...
- ASTHMA MANAGEMENT, TO IMPLEMENT INTERVENTIONS COMMUNITY BASED: -Community-based care coordination effective for real world asthma management programs
Study findings from Merck Childhood Asthma Network Asthma Management Programs show improvements in health outcomes, especially for low-income, minority children WASHINGTON, DC -- Effective ...
- MOLECULAR CYTOBIOLOGY & LUNG CANCER: -The application of molecular diagnostic studies interrogating EGFR and KRAS mutations to stained cytologic smears of lung carcinoma
EGFR and KRAS mutation analyses are of increasing importance for guiding the treatment of non–small cell lung carcinomas. Insufficient cellularity of cell blocks can represent an impediment ...
- ASTHMA TREATMENT: -A step toward personalized asthma treatment
Inhaled glucocorticoids are used every day by millions of patients with asthma. As with all asthma-controller treatments, there is marked patient-to-patient variability in the therapeutic ...
- ASTHMA PHENOTYPES & INTERLEUKIN 13: -Asthma phenotypes and interleukin-13 — moving closer to personalized medicine
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways manifested by reversible airflow obstruction and airway hyperresponsiveness.1 One of the challenges of treating patients with asthma is ...
- COPD EXACERBATIONS: -Preventing exacerbations of COPD — advice from hippocrates
Severe acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are devastating, life-threatening events; the 30-day mortality is greater than that with acute myocardial infarction (26% ...
- ASTHMA: -House dust mite test on wheezy toddlers predicts asthma in teen years
Wheezy toddlers who have a sensitivity to house dust mites are more at risk of developing asthma by the age of 12, a University of Melbourne led study has shown. Children aged one – two ...
- OSA RECURRENCE: -Withdrawal of CPAP therapy results in rapid recurrence of OSA
The benefits of continuous positive airway pressure machines (CPAP) for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are quickly reversed when the therapy is withdrawn, according to Swiss research. ...
- EVIDENCE IN LUNG CANCER DIAGNOSIS:- Better evidence about screening for lung cancer
In October 2010, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that patients who were randomly assigned to screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) had fewer deaths from lung cancer than ...
- PATTERNING IN BREATHING & SLEEP APNEA: -Differences in breathing patterning during wakefulness in patients with mixed apnea-dominant vs obstructive-dominant sleep apnea
BACKGROUND: Mixed apneas share both central and obstructive components and are often treated as if they are obstructive events. The hypothesis is that patients with obstructive sleep ...
