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COPD, News

Alpha-1-antitrypsin-deficiency (AATD) is a genetic predisposition to the development of early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a major worldwide disease that includes conditions such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Inflammation ... Read more

June 25, 2014November 11, 2015

New mHealth Program Helps Patients Monitor COPD

COPD, News

Patients suffering from chronic obstructive disease (COPD) can now benefit from a new mHealth program, Me&MyCOPD, which may help them improve their health and quality of life by providing personalized ... Read more

June 18, 2014November 11, 2015

Antibiotic Prophylaxis Therapy Associated With Reduction Of Exacerbations In COPD Patients

COPD, News

Exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonar disease (COPD) were proven to be significantly reduced when continuous prophylaxis antibiotic with a macrolide was used, a team of researchers from Canada ... Read more

June 18, 2014June 18, 2014

Lung-MAP Project Partners Biotech Giants To Advance Lung Cancer Treatment

Lung Cancer

Just as everyone has their own fingerprints, individual tumors also have different genetic “fingerprints.” What if cancer treatment could be personalized depending on the specific type of fingerprinting a tumor ... Read more

June 18, 2014June 18, 2014

Study Solidifies Legal Attribution To Lung Cancer Caused By Smoking

Lung Cancer, News

A newly developed model legally attributes more than 90% of lung cancer cases in Quebec to smoking, based on a dose-response relationship between smoking and lung cancer, as well as ... Read more

June 12, 2014June 13, 2014

Cancer Center In New Jersey To Launch Lung Cancer Study For Nivolumab

Lung Cancer

A new experimental drug targeting lung cancer is currently being studied in an ongoing clinical trial at the Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center in New Jersey. Nivolumab is a human monoclonal antibody ... Read more

June 10, 2014November 11, 2015

Boehringer Ingelheim Reports First Data Of Tiotropium and Olodaterol Fixed-Dose Combination in COPD

COPD, News

Boehringer Ingelheim recently announced the results of the Phase III VIVACITO® study investigating the effect of tiotropium and olodaterol fixed-dose combination (T+O FDC) delivered by the Respimat inhaler to improve lung ... Read more

June 3, 2014November 11, 2015

Internet Walking Program Helps To Improve Quality of life in COPD Patients

COPD, News

A study involving a group of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that were tested using an online pedometer-based walking program suggests that internet supported programs with instructions, information ... Read more

June 2, 2014June 2, 2014

New Editorial Explains Why Two Bronchiolitis Clinical Studies Involving Children Contradict One Another

Bronchiolitis, News

An editorial published recently in JAMA Pediatrics explained why two randomized clinical trials to assess the therapeutic efficacy of hypertonic saline treatment on children with bronchiolitis reached contradictory results. One study concluded ... Read more

May 30, 2014November 11, 2015

Preliminary Study Suggests That Heat Worsens Respiratory Illness COPD

COPD, News

A recent study conducted by Dr. Meredith McCormack of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD suggests that high temperatures are related to the escalation in symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary ... Read more