Lung disease news: Saliva test for incurable COPD could save lives by predicting flare-ups
COPD, also chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an incurable lung condition - including emphysema and chronic bronchitis - which causes thousands of deaths every year. However, experts have found a saliva test could help save patients' lives. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Visual DX- “ My Eye Popped Out ”
A 44-year-old male with hypertension presents via EMS with this ocular complaint after having sneezed. What’s your assessment?
by Lauren Westafer, DO and Nicholas Daniel, DO
A 44-year-old male with hypertension presented via EMS with the complaint “my eye popped out!” The patient reported right eye swelling and pain immediately after sneezing.
He denied trauma or change in his visual acuity, but admitted to a prior history of cocaine abuse. Physical exam revealed periorbital subcutaneous emphysema and intact accommodation and extraocular movements. His pupils were equal and reactive to light. Visual acuity was meas...
Source: EPMonthly.com - December 2, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Taja Whitted Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Risks, symptoms and prevention
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is a collection of serious lung diseases that obstructs airflow from the lungs and causes breathing issues. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the conditions that most commonly contribute to COPD. According to the American Lung Association, more than 11 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COPD, [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Radiologic Case: Pulmonary Edema Superimposed on Emphysema Radiologic Case: Pulmonary Edema Superimposed on Emphysema
The unusual imaging findings in this case of a 54-year-old man with pulmonary edema superimposed on emphysema demonstrate why the condition has been termed"sponge lung."Applied Radiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
How to Quit Smoking
By Stacy Simon Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Since the release of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health 50 years ago, there have been 20 million deaths due to tobacco. Almost half the deaths from 12 different types of cancer combined – including lung, voice box, throat, esophagus, and bladder cancers – are attributable to cigarette smoking alone. In addition to cancer, smoking greatly increases the risk of debilitating long-term lung diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It also raises the risk for heart...
Source: American Cancer Society :: News and Features - November 16, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Smoking/Tobacco Source Type: news
World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day 2017
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an umbrella term that covers those long-term lung conditions which are characterized by shortness of breath, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic asthma, and which aren ’t fully reversible. World COPD Day is observed each year in November to highlight and raises awareness about the symptoms, risk factors and, treatment for COPD – and is a good time to share some of our relevant Cochrane evidence.Blogpost: 3 things to help people with COPD keep well and keep out of the hospitalonEvidently Cochrane.Self-management interventions for people with COPDNon-invasi...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - November 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an umbrella term that covers those long-term lung conditions which are characterized by shortness of breath, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic asthma, and which aren ’t fully reversible. World COPD Day is observed each year in November to highlight and raises awareness about the symptoms, risk factors and, treatment for COPD – and is a good time to share some of our relevant Cochrane evidence.Related Evidently Cochrane blog posts:3 things to help people with COPD keep well and keep out of the hospital New evidence on antibiotics for exacerbations of...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - November 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day 2016
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an umbrella term that covers those long-term lung conditions which are characterized by shortness of breath, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic asthma, and which aren ’t fully reversible. World COPD Day is observed each year in November to highlight and raises awareness about the symptoms, risk factors and, treatment for COPD – and is a good time to share some of our relevant Cochrane evidence.Blogpost: 3 things to help people with COPD keep well and keep out of the hospitalonEvidently Cochrane.Antibiotics for exacerbations of COPD Nebulisers or inhaler...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - November 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: mumoquit at cochrane.org Source Type: news
Kamada Announces Extension of GLASSIA(R) Supply and Distribution Agreement with Shire with Minimum $237 Million of Revenue for the Years 2017 to 2020
NESS ZIONA, Israel, Oct. 06, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Kamada Ltd. (KMDA) (KMDA), a plasma-derived protein therapeutics company focused on orphan indications, announced today the extension of the strategic partnership with Shire plc... Biopharmaceuticals, Distribution, Licensing Kamada, Shire plc, GLASSIA, emphysema (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - October 6, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
A New Model For Aging At Home: Care Management -- Every Step Of The Way
The vast majority of older Americans, 90 percent of them, want to age at home. Many have lived in their homes for decades, where they are surrounded by the familiar -- from photos on the wall to shops on the street -- and can visit or receive visits from family and neighbors. Today, there's no reason anyone should have to compromise on this wish for their later years. Thanks in large part to the growing popularity of Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) health care plans, we now have the ability to keep even the sickest elderly patients stable and comfortable at home.
MLTC plans do this by coordinating all the various elements o...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Goat horn-induced intracranial emphysema and orbital injury - Huggins AB, Evans JJ, Flanders AE, Rabinowitz MP.
This is a case description of a male patient found to have orbital and intracranial emphysema, specifically with air in his cavernous sinuses bilaterally following penetrating trauma to the medial orbit from a goat's horn. There were no orbital or skull ba... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 2, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Massive subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum, an underestimated clinical sign of child abuse - Molina AA, Ocete Hita E, Gonz ález Hervás C, Azcón González DE Aguilar P.
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Language: en... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Advanced visualization tool assesses lung disease
An Australian start-up firm called 4Dx has developed a new technique that combines...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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3D wide-area CT distinguishes tracheomalacia from stenosis (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 19, 2016 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Pulmonary complications in adult survivors of childhood cancer
(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) A team of researchers from nine leading academic hospitals and research centers have published a paper in the early online edition of the journal Cancer that describes pulmonary outcomes among childhood cancer survivors. The study also evaluates the impact of complications such as asthma, chronic cough, emphysema and recurrent pneumonia on daily activities. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 15, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New disease gene linked to telomerase abnormalities in some cases of pulmonary fibrosis, emphysema
Researchers say they have identified a new disease gene that, when mutated, appears to increase the risk in a small number of people of developing emphysema and a lung-scarring condition known as pulmonary fibrosis. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 10, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
