Jun 22, 2015

New research was presented at ATS 2015, the American Thoracic Society’s annual meeting, from May 15 to 20 in Denver. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from the conference...

May 25, 2015

New research was presented at Hospital Medicine 2015, the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, from March 29 to April 1 in National Harbor, MD. The features below highlight some of the ...

May 25, 2015

The mucus hyper-secretion that characterizes COPD has been shown to contribute to disease-related morbidity and mortality. Currently available medications for COPD do not specifically address mucus cl...

May 25, 2015

New research was presented at AATS 2015, the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, from April 25 to 29 in Seattle. The features below highlight some of the studies emerging ...

May 18, 2015

An article called “Simple '4-7-8' breathing trick can induce sleep in 60 seconds” claims that this trick can get you to go to sleep within 60 seconds. All you have to do is the following: ♦  E...

May 18, 2015

This video features Sanjay Sethi, MD, and one of his patients who uses the Lung Flute. This device has been prescribed by doctors all over the USA and has been clinically proven to provide natural res...

Apr 23, 2015

Mounting evidence suggests there is a strong relationship between asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), whereby each disorder deleteriously influences the other. However, little is known regarding...

Apr 23, 2015

As COPD progresses, patients with the disease experience more frequent bouts of shortness of breath and exacerbations. Activities of daily living become increasingly difficult, often leaving family ...

Apr 13, 2015

The term “alarm fatigue” refers to when clinicians are desensitized by alarms, many of which sound off despite being false or clinically irrelevant. As a result, alarm sounds can become background...

Apr 01, 2015

Chronic lower respiratory disease—the large majority of which is COPD—currently ranks as the third leading cause of mortality in the United States. Recent estimates of the costs associated with ch...

Apr 01, 2015

Studies have suggested a relationship between previous respiratory diseases and a lung cancer diagnosis. Most of this research has been conducted in Asian populations and does not account for the high...

Mar 16, 2015

Life expectancy at birth represents the average number of years that a group of infants would live if the group was to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates present for their year of...

Mar 09, 2015

New research was presented at STS 2015, the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, from January 24 to 28 in San Diego. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from t...

Feb 23, 2015

Between 10% and 17% of Americans have moderate to severe sleep apnea, according to recent estimates. The prevalence of the condition has been increasing in recent years, due in part to the escalating ...

Feb 23, 2015

The Asthma Control Test (ACT) has long been used as a quick survey to assess how well asthma symptoms are controlled among patients aged 12 and older, while the Childhood ACT (CACT) is used for such t...

Feb 01, 2015

The 2014 Surgeon General’s Report concluded that smoking by cancer patients and survivors increases overall mortality, cancer- specific mortality, and risk for second primary cancers. Studies have f...

Jan 07, 2015

As the second enrollment period for insurance exchanges under the ACA opened in November, many people are feeling the squeeze of the financial burdens being placed on them. While the ACA (Obamacare, a...

Dec 29, 2014

Studies have found that patients with HIV have a two- to five-fold greater risk of lung cancer when compared with patients from the general population. Other research has suggested that CT-based lung ...

Dec 15, 2014

More than a quarter-million youth who had never smoked used e-cigarettes in 2013. ...

Nov 18, 2014

The Particulars: Research shows that chronic asthma and cardiovascular disease (CVD) share a common inflammatory pathophysiology. However, few studies have explored the potential association between p...