This video provides a comprehensive overview of pediatric asthma, focusing on how to approach a wheezing child. It differentiates between stridor and wheezing, explaining their causes and characteristics…
This video features a presentation at the Best of Lung 2023 conference. Jaime Schneider, MD discusses the latest advancements in targeted therapies for lung cancer. They highlight the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nutritional support, mainly in the form of oral nutritional supplements, boosts protein and energy intake, body weight and grip strength in malnourished patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In African Americans with moderate-to-severe asthma, treatment for a year with an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol is safe and reduces asthma…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hypoxemia is common in pulmonary hypertension patients during commercial air travel and supplemental in-flight oxygen may be of benefit, researchers report in a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite a guideline in Canada recommending the use of opioids to relieve refractory dyspnea in COPD patients, physicians there are reluctant to do…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, twice daily inhalation of either 200 or 400 mcg aclidinium bromide significantly improves FEV1, and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis show that in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome, early use of nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) compared…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Goiter should be considered in the differential diagnosis of positional dyspnea, even in patients without obvious thyroid enlargement, according to a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new analysis of pooled data on omalizumab should help allay concerns that omalizumab (Xolair; Genentech, Novartis) may increase the risk for cancer.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can be treated safely with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), according to findings published in the 24 January online issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute lung injury on mechanical ventilation, restricting the amount of enteral nutrition provided does not reduce the number of days…
