Aug 16, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially ozone (O3), is significantly associated with worsening emphysema, according to a study published in t...

Aug 15, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A vaping industry group has launched legal action to delay the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's upcoming review of electronic cigarettes. In the lawsuit...

Aug 15, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-third of U.S. nonsmoking youth are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) from tobacco, according to an August data brief published by the U.S. Cen...

Aug 12, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deep natural language processing may be able to estimate the presence of active cancer, cancer worsening or progression, and cancer improvement or response fr...

Aug 09, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers and nonsmokers with ulcerative colitis (UC) have similar outcomes, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeu...

Aug 08, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There have been 118 more reports of electronic cigarette users suffering seizures since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first warned the public about t...

Aug 08, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- About two-thirds of patients who survive hospitalization for sepsis have persistent elevation of inflammation and immunosuppression biomarkers, which is link...

Aug 07, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In an official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline, published in the Aug. 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...

Aug 05, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Possible vaping-related breathing problems have led to the hospitalization of 14 teens and young adults in two states. There were 11 cases of severe breathing ...

Aug 01, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Worldwide, asthma patients report that work time is adversely affected by their condition, despite the use of long-term maintenance medication, according to ...

Jul 31, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), the rates of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) persistence after pulmonary emboliz...

Jul 29, 2019

MONDAY, July 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A convolutional neural network (CNN) can predict long-term mortality from chest radiographs (CXRs), according to a study published online July 19 in JAMA Netw...

Jul 23, 2019

TUESDAY, July 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- One in five nonsmoking workers report exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) at work, according to research published in the July 12 issue of the U.S. Ce...

Jul 23, 2019

TUESDAY, July 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Statistical models demonstrate how targeting certain air pollutants could reduce the incidence of childhood asthma, according to a study published online Jul...

Jul 19, 2019

FRIDAY, July 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), ivacaftor use is associated with a reduction in pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a study publ...

Jul 19, 2019

FRIDAY, July 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Better family relationships are associated with better asthma management behaviors and outcomes for those living in neighborhoods characterized as dangerous a...

Jul 18, 2019

THURSDAY, July 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ambient air pollution is associated with lower lung function and increased chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence, according to a study pub...

Jul 18, 2019

THURSDAY, July 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- During 2011 to 2017, the prevalence of quit attempts in adult smokers did not change significantly in 44 states and increased in only four states, according...

Jul 16, 2019

TUESDAY, July 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- State-mandated protocolized sepsis care is associated with a greater decrease in sepsis mortality compared with that seen in states not implementing sepsis r...

Jul 12, 2019

FRIDAY, July 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), point-of-care testing of C-reactive protein (CRP) to guide antibiotic...