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Steroid inhalers in COPD management must be 'carefully weighed' — large study
Older people who use steroid inhalers for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more likely to suffer particular bacterial infections, according to...
Markers distinguish viral from bacterial infections in respiratory illness
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health-funded Respiratory Pathogens Research Centre have identified 11 genetic markers in blood that accurately distinguished between viral and bacterial...
Treating prem babies with caffeine improves later lung function
Premature babies treated with caffeine have better lung function in mid-childhood than preemies not treated with caffeine, according to an Australian randomised controlled trial.
"Previous studies...
Novel flu test to speed up respiratory treatment
Doctors and researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a novel way of using a swab test which can rapidly diagnose flu and...
Elevated cardiac troponin raises risk of cardiac mortality in CAP patients
Elevated cardiac troponin T (cTnT), a dependable marker for myocardial infarction, is also strongly prognostic of cardiac mortality observed in association with community-acquired pneumonia...
World TB Day – Drug-resistant TB spreading; poor infection control in SA
New tuberculosis infections have declined around the world – except in Sub-Saharan Africa. And the explosion of drug-resistant TB strains in South Africa and other countries have...
Removable airway stent could revolutionise surgery
Norwegian researchers successfully tested a respiratory stent that was completely removed without significant technical or medical complications, in a proof-of-principle animal study.
Two years ago, Dr...
Study finds over 30% adult asthma diagnoses are incorrect
A study has found that 33% of adults recently diagnosed with asthma by their physicians did not have active asthma. Over 90% of these...
Cystic fibrosis patients’ lung function hampered by mucins
University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers have provided the first quantitative evidence that mucins – the protein framework of mucus – are...
Asthma sufferers will benefit from combining medications
People with asthma are likely to benefit from combining medications to manage their symptoms, a strategy that requires doctors and patients to work together...