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Air Pollution: Over Three Billion People Breathe Harmful Air Inside Their Own Homes

Air Pollution: Over Three Billion People Breathe Harmful Air Inside Their Own Homes

More than 3 billion people are exposed to air pollution within their own homes through cooking, heating and lighting with traditional fuels.

  • Covid Vaccine Rollout Leaves Most Older Adults Confused Where to Get Shots

  • High Price of Oxygen Adds to Burden of Coronavirus Crisis in Mexico

  • Merk’s Experimental Lung Cancer Drug Fails Trial

  • COVID-19 Antibodies Protect for at least Six Months

  • Taurine May Prevent Bacterial Infections

  • United States to Rejoin World Health Organization

  • Influenza-like Illness Leads to Worsening of Pneumococcal Colonization

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Breathing Easier With A Better Tracheal Stent

Breathing Easier With A Better Tracheal Stent

Pitt researchers demonstrate successful use of a biodegradable magnesium-alloy stent for pediatric patients.

  • Double Lung Transplant Patient Survives COVID-19

    Double Lung Transplant Patient Survives COVID-19

  • Tobacco Use is Declining Among Youth, Survey Shows

    Tobacco Use is Declining Among Youth, Survey Shows

  • Investigational Drug Gets DOD Funding to Prevent ARDS in COVID

    Investigational Drug Gets DOD Funding to Prevent ARDS in COVID

  • How Common Is Pulmonary Embolism in Hospitalized COPD Patients?

    How Common Is Pulmonary Embolism in Hospitalized COPD Patients?

  • Why Massachusetts Dropped Its Student Flu Vaccine Mandate

    Why Massachusetts Dropped Its Student Flu Vaccine Mandate

  • CVS and Walgreens Under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes

    CVS and Walgreens Under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes

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Give Them Comfort: Controlling COPD Symptoms at the End of Life (Part I)

Give Them Comfort: Controlling COPD Symptoms at the End of Life (Part I)

Patients' last days of COPD can be characterized by depression, anxiety, pain, and dyspnea. Clinicians must be alert to patient discomfort and offer appropriate palliative care and reassurance.

  • Asthma-COPD Therapy Foradil Aerolizer to be Discontinued

    Asthma-COPD Therapy Foradil Aerolizer to be Discontinued

  • Ventilator Weaning: It’s About Technology and Teamwork

    Ventilator Weaning: It’s About Technology and Teamwork

  • AARC Wants RTs to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree

    AARC Wants RTs to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree

  • FDA Approves Endobronchial Valves for Severe Emphysema

    FDA Approves Endobronchial Valves for Severe Emphysema

  • Noninvasive BiPAP Systems May Help COPD Patients

    Noninvasive BiPAP Systems May Help COPD Patients

  • Respiratory Therapists in the Armed Forces

    Respiratory Therapists in the Armed Forces

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CDC: Strong Flu Vaccine Distribution Leads to Mild Flu Season

CDC: Strong Flu Vaccine Distribution Leads to Mild Flu Season

The rise of the novel coronavirus has overshadowed what would normally be the height of flu season, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports remarkably low levels of influenza.

  • COVID-19 Exposures on Flights Occurring Regularly

  • ACAAI Updates Guidance on Allergic Reactions to COVID-19 Vaccine

  • Delays Expected for Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

  • Gender Tied to Worse Rates of COVID-19 Infection, Mortality

  • Initial Severity of COVID-19 Not Tied to Later Poor Health or Respiratory Complications

  • Clinical Trials Testing Two Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19

  • Antidepressant Fluvoxamine May Reduce Severity of COVID-19

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New Way to Test for Fetal Lung Injury

New Way to Test for Fetal Lung Injury

Infectious injury to a fetus' lungs can be detected by monitoring for an increase in specific inflammatory proteins in the amniotic fluid, a study finds.

  • Meat Consumption in Childhood Tied to Wheezing

  • NIH to Study MIS-C in Children with COVID-19

  • Asthma Medications Taken During Pregnancy May Be Tied to Premature Birth, Low Birth Weight

  • Cesarean Section-born Children May Face Higher Risk of Infection-related Hospitalization

  • How Coronavirus Changed Life for Respiratory Therapists in the NICU/PICU

  • One-time Preemie Now a Neonatal Physician Treating Infants with Ventilation

  • Cystic Fibrosis: FDA Approves Kalydeco For Infants as Young as 4 Months

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SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Helps Select Donor Blood Samples for Therapeutic Use

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Helps Select Donor Blood Samples for Therapeutic Use

A new COVID-19 antibody assay was able to detect IgG and IgM antibodies to determine viable donor samples for therapeutic use and clinical trials.

  • Studying Precision Medicine for Pulmonary Fibrosis

  • In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest COVID-19 Bottleneck

  • Pfizer Vaccine Effective Against COVID-19 Variants, in vitro Studies Find

  • FDA Clears New Wireless Device to Monitor Lung Sounds

  • Dräger, Breas Medical Partner on Ventilator Distribution

  • Entire UK Population to Be Home-Tested for COVID-19 Weekly

  • UK Patients to Receive Arthritis Drugs after Evidence They Reduce COVID-19 Mortality

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Smoking Associated with Increased Risk of COVID-19 Symptoms, Study Finds

Smoking Associated with Increased Risk of COVID-19 Symptoms, Study Finds

Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than non-smokers.

  • Light Smokers May Not Escape Nicotine Addiction, Study Reveals

  • Liquid E-cigarette Flavorings Measurably Injure Lungs

  • As More Red States Legalize Marijuana, Some Officials Try to Nip It in the Bud

  • Cigarette Smoke Can Reprogram Airway Cells, Causing COPD To Hang on After Smoking Ends

  • How Does Smoking History Impact Lung Transplant Outcomes?

  • How Phone Counseling Helps Cancer Patients Quit Smoking

  • Study: Parents Are Less Aware When Their Kids Vape Than When They Smoke

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Immune System Malfunctions Distinguish COVID-19 Patients with ARDS

Immune System Malfunctions Distinguish COVID-19 Patients with ARDS

Patients with severe COVID-19 who develop ARDS have malfunctions in their immune systems that distinguish them from other COVID-19 patients.

  • Report: Disabled Persons Denied Care, Ventilators

  • Ventilators: ‘Let Us Go Back to the Basics’

  • Preventing Ventilator-associated Lung Injury

  • NIH Updates COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines with Recommendations on Baricitinib

  • COVID-19 Preprint Data Rapidly Influenced Critical Care Practice

  • Increased Risk for Obese Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19

  • Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Incidence in COVID-19 Patients

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Two Gorillas Test Positive for COVID-19 at San Diego Zoo

Two Gorillas Test Positive for COVID-19 at San Diego Zoo

Two gorillas as the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the first reported cases of COVID-19 in great apes.

  • Loss of Smell Leads to Mild COVID Infections, Study Suggests

  • American Lung Association Launches Nationwide Effort to Encourage Americans to Get Flu Shot, COVID-19 Vaccine

  • CDC: A Mild Flu Season Continues Nationwide As COVID Drives Pneumonia Deaths

  • FDA: COVID Variant B117 May Trigger False Negatives

  • One COVID-19 Death Every 5.5 Minutes in Los Angeles County

  • Study: Severe Sepsis Predicted by Common Protein

  • Why It Matters That the Coronavirus is Changing – And What This Means for Vaccine Effectiveness

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