Archive for 2007/11


Growing Social And Economic Burden Of Lung Disease Underscores Need For Action: The Lung Association, Canada

The Lung Association said today that the release of an important new report on lung disease in Canada demonstrates the growing burden and deadly impact of lung diseases including asthma, COPD, sleep apnea and lung cancer. "Life and Breath: Respiratory Disease in Canada" released today by The Public Health Agency of Canada, highlights the most recent data available for certain major lung diseases. [click link for full article]
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11/23/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Research To Determine The Real Impact Of Occupation And Asthma, UK

Researchers are looking into the link between asthma and different occupations in order to help up to 3,000 people every year in the UK who develop asthma as a result of their work. The research, which is funded by Asthma UK, aims to identify the major occupations and occupational exposures that are associated with asthma as well as highlight the scale of the problem. [click link for full article]
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11/23/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

New Lung Association Research: Millions More May Have COPD Than Previously Estimated, Canada

Startling research findings released by The Lung Association demonstrate that as many as three million Canadians may have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Canada's fourth leading cause of death. This is nearly double previous estimates and includes over one and a half million (1.6 million) undiagnosed Canadians (1) and one and a half million (1. [click link for full article]
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11/22/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

SARS: A Model Disease

A new model to predict the spread of emerging diseases has been developed by researchers in the US, Italy, and France. The model, described in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, could give healthcare professionals advance warning of the path an emerging disease might take and so might improve emergency responses and control. [click link for full article]
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11/22/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Asthma Foundation Offers National Flu Shot Finder

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the week after Thanksgiving, November 27 to December 2, as National Influenza Vaccination Week. Despite annual CDC recommendations, influenza vaccination (flu shot) rates in young children remain disturbingly low. Only 20 percent of children age 6 to 23 months were fully immunized for the flu during the 2005-2006 season. [click link for full article]
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11/22/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Asthma Link To Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Says Mailman School Of Public Health Study

For the first time, a study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, is linking asthma with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adults. The study of male twins who were veterans of the Vietnam era suggests that the association between asthma and PTSD is not primarily explained by common genetic influences. [click link for full article]
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11/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Recently Discovered Virus Associated With Pediatric Respiratory Tract Infection In Germany

Using a rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive diagnostic tool called MassTag PCR, scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Infection and Immunity implicated a new human rhinovirus as the cause of severe pediatric respiratory tract infections in Europe. Their findings are published in the December 15 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases (currently available online). [click link for full article]
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11/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Studies Address Health Disparities In Asthma Educational Materials, Vascular Disease

The following summarizes recent studies that discuss racial disparities in asthma educational materials and vascular disease.Asthma: Asthma health educational materials targeted toward minorities need to be culturally focused in order to be effective, according to a study published in the latest issue of Ethnicity and Disease, [click link for full article]
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11/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

EPA Award Puts Asthma In The Spotlight

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a special award for asthma programs that address environmental triggers as a part of comprehensive care, and now is the time to apply.The EPA is accepting applications for the fourth annual National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management through February 1, 2008. [click link for full article]
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11/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Scientists Decode Genomes Of Diverse TB Isolates

An international collaboration led by researchers in the US and South Africa announced the first genome sequence of an extensively drug resistant (XDR) strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one linked to more than 50 deaths in a recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As part of this work, genomes of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and drug sensitive isolates were also decoded. [click link for full article]
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11/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

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