Archive for 2008/06


Aerocrine: China Opens Up To Aerocrine’s Asthma Test

Aerocrine AB (STO:AEROB) announced that its handheld airway inflammation monitor, NIOX MINO®, has been registered for marketing and sale in China. Aerocrine's method of measuring airway inflammation, using exhaled nitric oxide (NO) tests, has also been incorporated into China's national guidelines for asthma management. Tests for airway inflammation have received a reimbursement code.
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06/30/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Discover The Healing Power Of Guided Imagery

Physician, author, speaker, researcher and consultant, Dr. Marty Rossman, creator of the Guided Imagery for Self-Healing Book and CD set and founder of The Healing Mind will appear on the July 9th Access to Health Experts teleseminar series. He will discuss his theory of guided imagery and share his long-standing interest in the practical importance of attitude, beliefs, emotions, and mind/body practices in medicine and health. According to Dr.
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06/30/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Community-Acquired Pneumonia In The Elderly: Every Tenth Patient Dies In Western Countries

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a public health problem of substantial magnitude, and remains the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases, with an incidence ranging from 1.6 to 10.6 per 1,000 adults per year in Europe. Owing to demographic changes, elderly patients now represent about 50% of CAP patients in western countries.
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06/30/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Wood Smoke Exposure Induces Inflammatory Response In Firefighters

Biomass fuels in the form of wood and agricultural wastes are a significant source of direct human energy consumption worldwide. Household use of these fuels dominates demand in many developing countries, particularly in rural areas. As half of the world's population still lives in rural areas, biomass fuels remain the main source of energy for most of mankind.
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06/30/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Exacerbations Lead To Depression In COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes limitation of airflow in the lungs that cannot be fully reversed, leading to symptoms of breathlessness, cough, wheeze and sputum production. The disease, although chronic, is interspersed with periods of acute symptomatic and functional deterioration known as exacerbations. Exacerbations have important consequences for patients and their healthcare providers.
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06/30/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Respiratory Function Conditioned By Inflammation Markers And Genetic Profile

There are close links between blood inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), and respiratory function. So reveals a study to be published in the forthcoming issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), the peer-reviewed publication of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).
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06/30/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

No Place For Hypnotherapy And Acupuncture In An Evidence Based NHS Stop Smoking Service, UK

Smokers wishing to quit would be wasting their money if they use complementary therapies such as hypnotherapy or acupuncture - smoking cessation experts claim today (Monday, June 30). This and other issues around the most effective ways to help smokers quit will be discussed at the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference in Birmingham on 30 June & 1 July 2008.
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06/30/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Breakthrough In Plant Medicine Production

A research team of scientists from Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands has succeeded in further unravelling and manipulating the glycosylation of proteins in plants. This is the result of the research soon to be published in the renowned scientific magazine The Plant Cell. The scientists expect that this knowledge will allow plants to be applied more often in the production of therapeutic proteins, an important type of medicine.
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06/28/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

UNISON Wins Compensation For Asbestos Victim Family

The family of a former UNISON member has received more than £140,000 in compensation following his death from mesothelioma - a lung disease caused by exposure to asbestos in the workplace. Jim Crowe, from Wood Green in London, died aged 79, in June 2007 after developing the deadly disease.Jim, who left behind his wife, Tess, four children and four grandchildren, was exposed to asbestos while working for Greater London Council (GLC) and Haringey Council.
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06/27/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

New Clinical Trial For Patients With Asbestos-Associated Lung Cancer

The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung's lining that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.
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