UC Davis Health will integrate Propeller Health's remote monitoring platform into its own electronic health record (EHR) system in an effort to offer personalized treatment for high-risk patients with asthma and COPD.
Black patients with pulmonary fibrosis are significantly younger than their Hispanic and white counterparts across a wide variety of disease metrics, including diagnosis, first hospitalization, lung transplant and death.
Patients with COPD who undergo major surgery are more likely to die in the year after surgery than similar patients without COPD, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Researchers say the new technology can enable rapid development of effective vaccines for bacterial diseases, including those caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection before age 2 may increase the risk of dying prematurely in adulthood from a respiratory disease.
The revision states that the vaccine can cause thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which may be life-threatening.
Researchers found that CBD slows the metabolism of nicotine, which could potentially delay a smoker's craving for more.
The researchers hope the projects will lead to new avenues for treatments to help patients with conditions like COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in collaboration with Danish researchers, have identified two types of electronic letters that resulted in modest but “statistically significant” increases in influenza vaccination rates,