Ask Dr Rosemary Leonard: ‘Why doesn’t my inhaler stop my emphysema cough?’
NHS GP Dr Rosemary Leonard answers a reader's query about how to manage the shortness of breath they are experiencing (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dark-field chest x-ray takes step forward
German developers of dark-field chest x-ray appear to have overcome a technical limitation of the technology – namely, adjusting for photon scattering caused by interferometers used in the experimental system.
This scattering is picked up by the system’s detector (so-called “detector cross talk”) and leads to unwanted artifacts on patient chest x-rays, noted study lead and doctoral candidate Theresa Urban, of the Technical University of Munich, and colleagues. Ultimately, the group described a method to correct the phenomenon to produce better images.
“With the corrections presented here … the obtained dark-f...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 12, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Subspecialties Digital X-Ray Chest Radiology Source Type: news
Smoking Tobacco Plus Weed Greatly Raises Odds for Emphysema
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 -- Folks who smoke weed along with cigarettes are doing serious damage to their lungs, a new study warns.People who do both are 12 times more likely to develop emphysema than nonsmokers, due to the damage they ’re doing to... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
CT reveals marijuana, cigarette smokers at higher risk of emphysema
CHICAGO -- Chest CT images reveal that cigarette and marijuana smokers are at higher risk of developing emphysema, according to research presented November 28 at the RSNA annual meeting.
In her presentation, Jessie Kang, MD, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, showed findings suggesting that people who combine marijuana and cigarettes are 12 times more likely to develop centrilobular emphysema than non-smokers.
“With our study, we show that there are physical effects of marijuana smoking on the lungs and that cigarette smoking and marijuana smoking may have a combined damaging effect on the lungs...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 28, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties CT Chest Radiology 2023 Source Type: news
Chest CT shows that marijuana use isn't harmless
Tuesday, November 28 | 1:50 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | T6-SSCH06-3 | Room E350 Chest CT shows that marijuana smoking has a negative effect on the lungs and chest wall, according to research to be presented Tuesday afternoon.A team led by Jessie Kang, MD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, investigated the impact of marijuana smoking by assessing the CT chest images of regular smokers.The study included four groups: nonsmokers, cigarette smokers, marijuana smokers, and marijuana and cigarette smokers who had undergone chest CT. The marijuana users had smoked for at least two years and at least four times per mon...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 13, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: 2023 CT Preview Source Type: news
Deep-learning model can spot patients at high risk of COPD
Thursday, November 30 | 8:20 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | R1-SSCH09-3 | Room E352This scientific presentation will present external validation results for a deep-learning model in identifying individuals at high risk of incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on routine outpatient chest x-rays (CXR).Saman Doroodgar Jorshery, MD, and colleagues will discuss findings with CXR-Lung-Risk, a previously developed convolutional neural network designed to predict lung-related mortality. For the external validation, patients with no history of lung cancer, COPD, or emphysema, and who had a chest radiograph, were identified.After ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 9, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: 2023 Digital X-Ray Preview Source Type: news
1-Hour Lung Protection Protocol Stops Viruses Cold
The simple act of breathing constantly exposes your lungs to all kinds of viruses, bacteria, particles of pollution, and other harmful foreign matter.
And that means this overlooked organ has evolved its own special immune system to protect itself.
Studies show that, like the rest of your body, your lungs operate two interactive protective systems — an adaptive and an innate immune system.
The innate immune system in your lungs is made up of armies of T cells, B cells, and NK cells, like leukocytes, phagocytes, and macrophages.
These cells, which are released by the alveoli and airway epithelial cells, identify foreign i...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 14, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Natural Cures Source Type: news
Mediastinal emphysema around the left carotid arteries from a toothbrush impalement injury - Ueshima M, Kono Y.
This report describes a case of a pediatric patient with a fever after an oral cavity injury caused by a toothbrush. On physical examination, no bleeds or injuries in his mouth were evident, but diagnostic imaging revealed wide mediastinal emphysema includ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Wood Smoke Continues to Make Women Sick in El Salvador
Cecilia Menjivar, a tortilla maker in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, takes a break from cooking corn in a pot that is one meter high and 50 centimeters in diameter, heated by a wood stove. Many women in urban and rural areas run these small businesses, aware of the damage to their health caused by the smoke, but the economic situation forces them to use firewood, which is much cheaper than liquefied gas. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala / IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador , Jul 4 2023 (IPS) Using a few dry sticks as fuel, Margarita Ramos of El Salvador lit the fire in her wood stove and set about frying...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edgardo Ayala Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Energy Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Gender Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Categori Source Type: news
Endobronchial Valves: Sustained Improvement in Emphysema Endobronchial Valves: Sustained Improvement in Emphysema
Five-year results from the EMPROVE study showed sustained improvements in lung function with one-way endobronchial valves.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news
'Leading cause of death': Warning signs of emphysema that could cause holes in your lungs
Increasing breathlessness is one of the red flag symptoms that could signal emphysema. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nonsmokers can get emphysema from air pollution, study finds
<img width="100" src="https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/sites/niehs-factor/files/styles/large/public/2019/9/papers/air-pollution/thumb875746.jpg?itok=cnf8YBmI" /><br /><p>Researchers hope that understanding the causes of debilitating lung disease may lead to better prevention and treatment.</p>
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Source: Environmental Factor - NIEHS Newsletter - February 3, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: news
Flavored Cannabis Marketing Is Criticized for Targeting Kids
NEW YORK — When New York’s first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the chief of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management, Chris Alexander, proudly hoisted a tin of watermelon-flavored gummies above the crowd.
Outside the Manhattan shop, he displayed another purchase — a jar containing dried flowers of a cannabis strain called Banana Runtz, which some aficionados say has overtones of “fresh, fruity banana and sour candy.”
Inside the store run by the nonprofit Housing Works, shelves brimmed with vape cartridges suggesting flavors of pineapple, grapefruit and cereal...
Source: TIME: Health - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bobby Caina Calvan/AP Tags: Uncategorized Drugs healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
I quit smoking cigarettes three years ago but now I have emphysema... Will it get worse?
DR ELLIE CANNON: Today's reader is asking if their recently diagnosed case of emphysema could get worse even after they quit smoking three years ago. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
