Chemotherapy for lung cancer is used for different purposes depending on the type and stage of cancer you have. This includes achieving cancer remission, shrinking a tumor before surgery, killing ...

Pneumonia symptoms can vary based on the cause and severity of the lung infection. For some, it might feel similar to the flu or be barely noticeable. For others, pneumonia can cause severe ...

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ... and found no significant difference in overall diagnostic accuracy, particularly for fungal infections. Wang et al. (2024) reported superior ...

SNOW THAT’S COMING UP? RIGHT NOW, THE CDC SAYS NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES IN THE COUNTRY. THE LATEST MAP FROM THE CDC SHOWS ONLY TWO STATES WITH VERY ...

Glox Therapeutics Ltd. has been awarded a share of a £3 million (US$3.7 million) collaborative discovery program launched by the Cystic Fibrosis Antimicrobial Resistance (CF AMR) syndicate. The ...

Vaccination coverage remains low, however, meaning "many children and adults lack protection from respiratory virus infections provided by vaccines," according to the CDC. Nearly half of all ...

This shows how, by altering the behaviour of these immune cells, chronic exposure to cigarette smoke can reduce their capacity to combat respiratory infections and increases the risk of chronic ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

Our kids and everyone with lungs will pay the price for these politically motivated rollbacks of protections for our air and the climate,” Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological ...

TODAY THEY TOLD ME 50% OF THE PATIENTS THEY ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW HAVE SOME SORT OF RESPIRATORY VIRUS. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY SAY WE’RE NOT EVEN AT PEAK SEASON YET. IT IS BUSY. I DON’T WANT TO PRETEND ...