Digital Inhalers May Improve Uncontrolled Asthma Management Digital tools led to increased adherence and less medication escalation, trial reports Mar 23, 2023
Fatty Acid Tube Feeding May Backfire for Preemie Breathing Disorder Supplemental nutrition did not stave off bronchopulmonary dysplasia in premature infants Mar 22, 2023
Tofacitinib May Reduce Risk of Interstitial Lung Disease in RA Patients Retrospective study shows a 69% lower risk with tofacitinib compared with adalimumab Mar 21, 2023
Pulse Oximeters Confirmed to Be Biased for Black Kids These patients are prone to get false negatives in hypoxemia Mar 20, 2023
FDA Allows Lower Risk Designation for Snuff Product The brand joins a limited few granted modified risk tobacco claims Mar 16, 2023
Routine Bronchoscopy May Help Guide Therapies for Severe Asthma Procedure helped identify tissue-blood eosinophil mismatch, treatable comorbidities Mar 15, 2023
Want to Make E-Cigs a Turnoff for Kids? Try Standardized Packaging Young people say their peers would be less interested in plain packaging versus branded packages Mar 14, 2023
Diagnosis, Death in Pulmonary Fibrosis Seen Earlier in Black Patients Disparities in age pervasive, say researchers Mar 13, 2023
Typical Chest CTs for COVID Less Common After Omicron, Vaccination More vaccine doses associated with less severe CT results as well Mar 09, 2023
Study Reassures on Asthma Med Use in Pregnancy and Kids' Neuropsych Risks Use of leukotriene-receptor antagonists not tied to risks of ADHD, autism, Tourette syndrome Mar 07, 2023
Sotatercept, Fixed-Dose Combo Therapy on the Right Path for PAH More therapeutic options suggested by STELLAR, A DUE trials Mar 06, 2023
Balloon Mitral Valvotomy Interrupted by Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Young Woman Patient recovered quickly, thanks to cardiologist's fast response Mar 06, 2023
Second RSV Vaccine for Older Adults Gets Thumbs Up From FDA Advisors VRBPAC unanimously endorses efficacy of GSK's protein fusion vaccine, not quite as sold on safety Mar 01, 2023
Sustained Benefits With Mepolizumab in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma A fifth of patients no longer needed oral steroids 2 years after starting biologic Mar 01, 2023
Fauci on Lab Leak; Murder Charge for Respiratory Therapist; Extra SNAP Benefits End Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Mar 01, 2023
FDA Panel Backs Pfizer's RSV Vaccine for Older Adults But panelists raise multiple concerns over phase III trial data Feb 28, 2023
Biologics for Asthma: Who Gets Them and Who Uses Them? Single-center study finds sluggish prescriptions, but patient-level barriers are also at work Feb 28, 2023
FDA Flags Potential Guillain-Barre Risk With RSV Vaccine Candidates Both vaccines demonstrated high efficacy against symptomatic illness in large phase III trials Feb 27, 2023
Docs Push Ivermectin for Flu; Woody's SNL Intro; Energy Dept. Backs Lab Leak Theory Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Feb 27, 2023
Higher Dose of Ivermectin, and for Longer, Still No Help Against COVID Losing streak continues for controversial antiparasitic Feb 23, 2023
Sutezolid With 3-Drug Combo Appears Safe and Effective in Multidrug-Resistant TB Sutezolid may be a replacement for linezolid in these patients, researcher says Feb 21, 2023
TB Treatment Strategy Has Potential to Drastically Slash Therapy Duration 8-week regimen, with more for persistent cases, yields similar outcomes to 6-month standard Feb 21, 2023
RSV Vaccine Succeeds in Phase III Trial of Older Adults Here's what it could mean in practice Feb 20, 2023
Monoclonal Antibodies Linked to Reduced RSV Burden in Young Kids Meta-analysis of 14 RCTs showed significant reductions in infection, hospitalization Feb 17, 2023
Chest CTs Reveal Abnormalities 2 Years After Severe COVID 39% of hospitalized Wuhan patients had persistent interstitial lung abnormalities, study finds Feb 15, 2023
It's Time to Pay Clinical Trial Participants More Accelerating trial enrollment can catalyze access to much-needed medications Feb 09, 2023
AI Tool Forecasts Lung Cancer Risk From a Single CT Scan Experts give high marks to performance of "Sybil" in predicting disease over 6 years Feb 07, 2023
Risk Model-Based Lung Cancer Screening More Cost-Effective Than USPSTF Recs Risk prediction models more sensitive than age-, smoking history-based methods Feb 07, 2023
Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Do At-Home Testing Devices Measure Up? Home test showed 52 apnea-hypopnea events per hour in woman with high blood pressure, weight gain Feb 06, 2023
Long COVID's 7 Symptoms; Most of U.S. Backs Tobacco Ban; Ugly People and Face Masks Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Feb 03, 2023
Bispecific Antibody Active in Relapsed/Refractory Small Cell Lung Cancer A majority of patients obtained disease control with tarlatamab; responses proved durable Feb 01, 2023
Immunotherapy Survival Gains 'Less Impressive' in Older Lung Cancer Patients Study finds median OS improvement of just 1 month for patients 75 and older Jan 26, 2023
Unmet Medical Needs Common After ICU Care Study points to "stark mismatch" in care before discharge and after Jan 25, 2023
Pediatric Respiratory Failure No Better Off With Early High-Flow Oxygen Randomized trial only applies to toddlers without COVID-19, though Jan 24, 2023
Fasting Before Respiratory Extubation Not Needed, Study Says Randomized trial suggests this common practice doesn't help Jan 23, 2023
DeSantis Pushes Permanent Bans; Moderna RSV Vax Effective; Top Stroke Expert Dies Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Jan 18, 2023
Intranasal Saline May Suffice for Some Kids' Sleep-Disordered Breathing Recommendations for surgery halved after 6 weeks of mometasone furoate or saline Jan 17, 2023
Why Is a Fit Swimmer Breathless and Coughing Up Blood? Case highlights a little-known, potentially dangerous, often recurrent condition of swimmers Jan 17, 2023
