Archive for 2009/07


How Children View And Treat Their Peers With Undesirable Characteristics: K-State Study

A study by Kansas State University researchers is looking at how children perceive and interact with peers who have various undesirable characteristics, such as being overweight or aggressive. The researchers' study explored children's perceptions of the ability of the peer to control or change such traits.
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07/31/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Pediatrics / Children's Health | Trackback | Comments Off

Health Chair’s Stance On Pet-Free Flights Very Disappointing: Lung Association, Canada

The Canadian Lung Association expressed disappointment in federal Health Committee Chair Joy Smith's stance on the issue of Air Canada and WestJet's policy to allow pets to travel in the passenger cabin of airplanes. The Lung Association launched an online campaign for pet-free flights in July following the decision by Air Canada to join WestJet in offering pet-free flights, despite the serious risks it presents to passengers and crew with asthma, COPD and severe animal allergies.
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07/31/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Swine Flu Pandemic Weekly Report, Wales

Levels of flu in Wales increased sharply in the week ending 26 July. Current levels of flu in Wales would be considered normal in the winter. Swine flu usually leads to a mild illness although in a minority of cases it can be severe Summary - The clinical consultation rate for influenza in Wales increased sharply during the week ending 26 July to 78.6 cases of flu like illness diagnosed by GPs out of every 100,000 people in Wales. It was 36.
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07/31/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Swine Flu | Trackback | Comments Off

Americans Spend $34 Billion A Year On Complementary And Alternative Medicine

According to a new report based on a government survey in 2007, in the previous 12 months Americans had spent a total of $33.9 billion out of their own pockets on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The report was compiled by Dr Richard L.
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07/31/2009 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Spiration Announces The Participation Of Several New Sites In U.S. Pivotal Trial Of Minimally Invasive Treatment For Severe Emphysema

Spiration, Inc., a developer of novel medical devices designed to benefit patients with acute and chronic conditions of the lung, announced today that several new clinical sites are now actively recruiting patients for participation in a pivotal trial of the company's minimally invasive treatment for severe emphysema. These sites include Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio; Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis.; National Jewish Health in Denver, Colo.
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07/31/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

American Lung Association Experts To Testify At EPA Public Hearings Urging Stronger Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Standards

The American Lung Association will tell the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing today to adopt even stronger, health-based national air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than what the agency proposed. Lung Association leadership and healthy air advocates will call for tighter standards at the hearing that begins at 9:00 AM at the EPA Potomac Yard Conference Center located at 1 Potomac Yard, 2777 South Crystal Drive in Arlington, Va.
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07/31/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Water - Air Quality / Agriculture | Trackback | Comments Off

Innovotech Inc.: First-Ever Test Helps In Fight Against Serious Lung Infections And Opens Door For Treating Other Life-Threatening Infections

A new test developed by Edmonton-based Innovotech Inc. (TSX VENTURE:IOT) will now allow doctors to more accurately identify the right antibiotics required to treat serious, chronic infections that are biofilm based. With more than 80 per cent of infections in the developed world caused by biofilms, the potential for this new breakthrough test, called bioFILM PATM, is of immense significance to the medical community.
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07/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

Study Of Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment In Sickle Cell Patients Halted By NHLBI

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial testing a drug treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell disease nearly one year early due to safety concerns.
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07/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Clinical Trials / Drug Trials | Trackback | Comments Off

Airway Spheres Created By Duke Scientists To Study Lung Diseases

Using both animal and human cells, Duke University Medical Center scientists have demonstrated that a single lung cell can become one of two very different types of airway cells, which could lead to a better understanding of lung diseases. From this single "basal" cell, a small, squat stem cell that divides to replenish the lung lining layer, scientists created 3-D hollow spheres that were lined inside with both ciliary and secretory cells.
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07/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Lung Cancer | Trackback | Comments Off

Repeated Stress Signals Made In Cells With Metabolism-Associated Disease Encourage The Growth Of Invading Bacteria

Mitochondrial diseases disrupt the power generating machinery within cells and increase a person's susceptibility to bacterial infection, particularly in the lungs or respiratory tract. A new study published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), shows that infection with the pneumonia causing bacteria Legionella, is facilitated by an increased amount of a signaling protein that is associated with mitochondrial disease.
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07/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

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