72 Articles with the topic: Respiratory Disorders
Tissue engineering triumph: Doctors transplant a trachea made from the patient's own stem cells
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 day 22 hours (www.lancet.com)
The medical journal Lancet has just announced that doctors have performed the first successful trachea transplant using a trachea crafted from the patient's own stem cells. The New York Times is hailing this as a revolutionary step in regenerative medicine. The surgery took place in Barcelona this past June. Researchers from universities in Spain, Britain and Italy collaborated on the preparation. The patient's original trachea--actually one of her bronchi--had been damaged by severe tuberculosis.
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Smoking and solid fuel use in homes cause millions of deaths
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (esciencenews.com)
If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer in China, accounting for 19% and 5% of all deaths in that country during this period. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) predict that the combined effects of these two major factors alone will be responsible for more than 80% of COPD deaths and 75% of lung cancer deaths in China over a thirty-year period
Surgery may help, but not cure, obese children with sleep disorders
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 4 weeks (esciencenews.com)
Surgical interventions for many obese children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea may not cure the problem, says new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO in Chicago, IL. Obese children are at increased risk for developing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep disorder that is associated with a decreased quality of life as well as behavioral, neurocognitive, cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine, and psychiatric complications
Abused kids may be more prone to asthma
jerry submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Physical or sexual abuse doubles the odds that a child – from Puerto Rico, at least – will suffer from asthma...
Burning incense linked to respiratory cancers
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.reuters.com)
Burning incense may create a sweet scent, but regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory tract, researchers reported Monday.
Female physicians most effective at treating childhood asthma
kavin submitted, created time 3 months 4 days (www.biomedcentral.com)
Female physicians have a better perception of asthma symptoms in children than their male counterparts, according to Turkish researchers.
The finding could indicate significant contribution of gender-related factors in clinical attitudes and beliefs,Bulent Sekerel (Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey) and colleagues explain in the journal BMC Health Services Research.
Understanding the level of management ability of physicians may guide interventions to improve quality of care and patient outcomes,?the authors write
Experimental chemotherapy regimen shows promise in treating advanced lung cancer
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.eurekalert.org)
A combination of chemotherapy agents that have been tested in other tumor types appears to be a promising alternative to standard treatment for advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer, according to a report in the Aug. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Bosentan benefits in mild pulmonary arterial hypertension
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.thelancet.com)
The EARLY study, published in the June 21, 2008 issue of the Lancet, was conducted by a group led by Dr Nazzareno Galič (University of Bologna, Italy).
They note that bosentan has been shown to improve exercise capacity, hemodynamics, and delay clinical worsening in two pivotal clinical trials, but in these, like other trials of treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension, the vast majority of enrolled patients were in an advanced symptomatic state (WHO functional class 3 and 4)
Faulty DNA repair could be a risk factor for lung cancer in nonsmokers
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (esciencenews.com)
People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. "About 15 percent of lung cancers occur in lifetime never smokers
Adult asthma tied to heart disease in women
kavin submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.msnbc.msn.com)
Asthma that begins in adulthood appears to increase the risk of heart disease and stroke in women but not in men. And compared with their counterparts without asthma, women with adult-onset asthma had a 2.10-fold increase in the rate of heart disease and a 2.36-fold increase in the rate of stroke.
FDA: Asthma Inhalers Going Green
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)
Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will quit selling at year's end—and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.
Obesity and asthma: Possible mechanisms
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.jacionline.org)
Obesity and asthma may share a common etiology, such as common genetics, common in utero conditions, or common predisposing dietary factors. Novel therapeutic strategies for treatment of the obese patient with asthma may result from an increased understanding of the mechanisms underlying this relationship
The Case of the Telltale Fingertips
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Club-shaped fingers can be a warning sign for serious lung and heart conditions, but the cause of the disorder has remained a mystery for more than 2400 years. Now, researchers may have taken a step toward solving the puzzle by pinpointing the mutation that spurs a rare type of clubbing...
Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic mishaps
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.latimes.com)
A surprising development: the drug that the man in this study had hoped would help turn him into a healthier person instead, he believes, caused an accident in which he could have been seriously hurt, even killed.
Quitting smoking is a pack behavior
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 4 weeks (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Smokers tend to quit in groups, according to a new study. One person who quits can have ripple effects across his or her entire social network, prompting others to kick the habit.
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