PULMONARY DISEASES

There’s a virus sweeping Australia right now and it’s making people seriously ill. Here’s what you need to know about HMPV. Australian health experts are warning of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a virus that’s surging across Australia and leaving our most vulnerable hospitalised. HMPV is a virus that affects the ribonucleic acid (RNA) in our […]

The peak thunderstorm asthma season is expected to begin on October 1 and run until the end of December. With a hotter and drier spring forecast, Ambulance Victoria emergency management director Justin Dunlop said he had been advised conditions were “very similar” to 2016. In November 2016, Melbourne experienced the world’s largest epidemic thunderstorm asthma […]

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September 26, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT (Photo by Jeff Dai) Comment on this storyComment N.J. Hynes is a poet born in Minnesota and based in London. The poem discussed in this essay is from her new pamphlet, “Tracking Light, Stacking Time.” That first pandemic summer I sat at home, as instructed, listening. Went outside […]

Jill Biden tested positive for Covid and is experiencing “mild symptoms”, per a 4 September statement from the White House. Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email New Covid boosters from Pfizer and Moderna are now available at pharmacies […]

Youth-onset diabetes is a serious chronic health condition that poses significant risks to affected individuals, especially those with type 2 diabetes and those from racial and ethnic minority groups, such as non-Hispanic Black individuals. Previous research has shown an increase in the incidence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youthin the US […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lung fibrosis is a debilitating disease affecting nearly 250,000 people in the U.S. alone with 50,000 new cases reported each year. There is currently no cure and limited available treatment options, underscoring the pressing need to better understand why people get this disease. In a new study, Boston University Chobanian & […]

Black children may have more severe asthma episodes than their white counterparts but are less likely to be transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS), according to a new study published in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researcher-physicians. A baseline understanding of how prehospital treatments and transport […]

The cold and flu season hasn’t officially begun, but COVID-19 is here and the health unit is expecting to receive more vaccines over the next few weeks. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit posts weekly COVID updates on its website. There were about six cases of the virus across both campuses at Windsor […]

Children under five are the largest group of patients who are hospitalised in Australia for respiratory viruses, according the CSIRO. There is no medicinal treatment for hPMV. Antivirals do not work, and there are no vaccines available, although Moderna is working on that. Its hPMV vaccine, an mNRA-type, has just passed a phase one trial. […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES, September 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Strados Labs has partnered with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of its RESP™ Biosensor in children presenting with wheeze. The RESP™ Biosensor – a novel wearable device used to remotely monitor lung sounds for […]

The lack of accessibility to simple, vital testing for prevalent lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (taking the form of emphysema and chronic bronchitis) or asthma is inhibiting GP’s from delivering precise diagnoses, warns renowned charity, Asthma and Lung UK. The lack of diagnostic resources could land a serious blow to the NHS, particularly […]

Try holding your breath for a minute. Okay, do it for 30 seconds. It was difficult, right? For some of you, even impossible. Now can you imagine that there are so many people across the world who face difficulties in breathing every second? There are people who suffer from congestion and can’t feel at peace, […]

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released the 2022 National Health Interview Survey results, which show that roughly 18 million Americans said they have ever had long COVID, and 8.8 million said they currently have the condition. Long COVID, or post COVID condition (PCC), is defined by ongoing […]

If you have the sniffles, should you immediately take a COVID test? Deaths and hospitalizations from COVID have risen in recent weeks, and experts say the US could see an uptick in cases in the coming months, as respiratory viruses start to circulate. That said, COVID cases aren’t nearly as bad as they were at […]

The US experienced a late-summer wave of COVID-19, which we can expect to continue into fall and winter when respiratory viruses typically thrive. While most people who catch COVID-19 will have a milder form, thanks to prior immunity and vaccination, older adults and some people with underlying conditions remain vulnerable to severe illness.  And depending […]

SINGAPORE — A 46-year-old woman who died four days after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine had died of natural causes and her death was not caused or contributed to by the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty mRNA vaccine, a coroner’s court has found. In findings made available this week, State Coroner Adam Nakhoda found that Ms Leong Jeng Fun had died of […]

Newswise — Black children may have more severe asthma episodes than their white counterparts but are less likely to be transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS), according to a new study published in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researcher-physicians. A baseline understanding of how prehospital treatments and transport […]

Independent risk factors for reintubation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to COVID-19 include a higher score on the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II at intensive care unit (ICU) admission and midazolam or fentanyl use within 48 hours before extubation. These were among study findings published in Respiratory Care. […]

Asia Ford, an unhoused Berkeley resident who lives outside on Harrison Street, adjusts his cloth mask as he waits for his friend to pick him up for work on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Ford had to go to a clinic after using his inhaler four times earlier in the week, as the wildfire smoke triggered […]