Antibiotics for cystic fibrosis may cause hearing loss: study supriya kashyap kashyap27 Feb 2017 12:17 PM ISTNew York : High dosage of a powerful class of antibiotics administered to treat cystic fibrosis may significantly increases the risk of permanent...
Asthma drugs could prevent prevent deadly form of pneumonia, research suggests supriya kashyap kashyap26 Feb 2017 9:52 AM ISTTwo drugs used to treat asthma and allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that can kill up to 40 percent of people who contract it,...
Evidence review supports pediatric use of PDE-5 inhibitors for pulmonary hypertension supriya kashyap kashyap25 Feb 2017 11:42 AM ISTWashington : A systematic review of the comparative effectiveness and safety of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors in pediatric patients with...
ICU care for COPD, heart failure and heart attack may not be better supriya kashyap kashyap21 Feb 2017 10:59 AM ISTDoes a stay in the intensive care unit give patients a better chance of surviving a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or heart failure...
Potential new treatment combats COPD and other lung diseases supriya kashyap kashyap14 Feb 2017 1:13 AM ISTNew research published online in The FASEB Journal reveals a potential drug to combat the life-threatening effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Salicylic acid promote nasal mucosa colonization: Study supriya kashyap kashyap6 Feb 2017 9:15 AM ISTStaphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of the human population. As an opportunistic...
Flu fighter: Scientist develops Breath monitor to detect flu supriya kashyap kashyap5 Feb 2017 11:58 AM ISTPerena Gouma, a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has published an article in the...
Precision medicine: Study creates MINI-lung to study effect of pulmonary fibrosis drugs supriya kashyap kashyap31 Jan 2017 10:20 AM ISTPulmospheres, three dimensional multicellular spheroids composed of lung cells from individual patients, were shown to be effective in predicting the...
Evidence insufficient regarding screening for obstructive sleep apnea: USPSTF supriya kashyap kashyap26 Jan 2017 10:59 AM ISTThe U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms...
Smart jacket invented to detect pneumonia supriya kashyap kashyap23 Jan 2017 12:25 PM ISTKampala : A team of Ugandan engineers has invented a "smart jacket" that diagnoses pneumonia faster than a doctor, offering hope against a disease...
Kochi: Surgeons at Lisie Hospital perform first heart-lung transplant surgery savita thakur thakur21 Jan 2017 12:39 PM ISTKOCHI: Padmashree Dr Jose Chacko Periappuram with his team reportedly performed the Kerala's first heart lung transplant surgery successfully at the...
Fungal infections, misdiagnosis and Antibiotic resistance supriya kashyap kashyap20 Jan 2017 12:40 PM ISTPoor diagnosis worldwide of fungal disease causes doctors to overprescribe antibiotics, increasing harmful resistance to antimicrobial drugs,...
