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Released: 16-May-2023 10:10 AM EDT
Novel Antibiotic Succeeds in Trial Against Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers researcher leads test that validates a new weapon against antibiotic-resistant disease.

Newswise: FAU Approved for Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Released: 16-May-2023 8:30 AM EDT
FAU Approved for Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Florida Atlantic University

FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine has received initial accreditation from the national Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for its fifth university-sponsored fellowship. The FAU Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship will be based at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, part of Baptist Health – the primary site for the program – as well as Bethesda Hospital, also part of Baptist Health, and the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center. All are members of the FAU College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education (GME) Consortium.

Newswise: NCCN Global Policy Leader Named Co-Chair of Global Health Council Roundtable Advancing International Coordination in Cancer Care
Released: 16-May-2023 8:30 AM EDT
NCCN Global Policy Leader Named Co-Chair of Global Health Council Roundtable Advancing International Coordination in Cancer Care
National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)

Katy Winckworth-Prejsnar, MPH, Senior Manager of Global Policy and Strategic Alliances for National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), to Co-Chair Non-Communicable Diseases Roundtable for the Global Health Council (GHC)

Newswise: AACN Practice Alert Offers Guidance on Manual Prone Positioning for Patients With ARDS
Released: 16-May-2023 6:00 AM EDT
AACN Practice Alert Offers Guidance on Manual Prone Positioning for Patients With ARDS
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

A newly released practice alert from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses aims to standardize how nurses care for patients undergoing prone positioning therapy for extended periods of time. It summarizes expected nursing practice to reduce the risk of complications related to manual prone positioning.

Released: 15-May-2023 4:25 PM EDT
Why No Menthol Sunday Matters
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

No Menthol Sunday on May 21 is an annual observance led by the Center for Black Health & Equity to encourage communities to address the detrimental impact of tobacco on Black communities and ask faith leaders to educate their congregants about smoking and the role of menthol and flavored products. Experts from the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies discuss the public health challenges of menthol in cigarettes

Newswise: Asthma, COPD, Health Disparities Research, and Virtual Press Event: ATS 2023
Released: 15-May-2023 4:00 PM EDT
Asthma, COPD, Health Disparities Research, and Virtual Press Event: ATS 2023
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

We’re mere days away from the largest gathering of respiratory health professionals! You can still register to cover ATS 2023 in Washington, DC. Before you join us, here are some of the research abstracts that will be presented to this year’s gathering of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine health professionals.

Newswise: Targeting uncontrolled inflammation may hold the key to treating therapy-resistant cancers
Released: 11-May-2023 1:15 PM EDT
Targeting uncontrolled inflammation may hold the key to treating therapy-resistant cancers
Van Andel Institute

Van Andel Institute scientists have pinpointed how a specific gene mutation triggers an inflammatory cascade that may drive development of treatment-resistant cancers.

Released: 10-May-2023 2:00 PM EDT
MD Anderson Research Highlights for May 10, 2023
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back.

   
Released: 10-May-2023 1:25 PM EDT
Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center Welcomes Otolaryngologist and Thoracic Surgeon to Advanced Lung & Airway Center
Hackensack Meridian Health

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Razi and Dr. Lebovics to our team of experts at JFK University Medical Center who treat patients with breathing disorders,” said Faiz Y. Bhora, MD, FACS, Professor and Regional Chair of Surgery, Central Region, Hackensack Meridian Health and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, who leads the Advanced Lung & Airway Center.

Released: 10-May-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Data from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source provides foundation for first U.S. approved RSV vaccine
Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Arexvy, the first RSV vaccine cleared for use in the United States. Arexvy has been in development for years, and is based on structural biology work done at the Advanced Photon Source between 2009 and 2013.

   
Released: 10-May-2023 11:25 AM EDT
New breathalyzer for disease sniffs out COVID in real-time, could be used to detect cancer, lung disease
University of Colorado Boulder

With each breath, humans exhale more than 1,000 distinct molecules, producing a unique chemical fingerprint or “breathprint” rich with clues about what’s going on inside the body.

   
Released: 9-May-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Tuberculosis disease intensifies HIV antibody response in people with HIV
Boston Medical Center

New research from Boston Medical Center found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody resistant as compared to those without suspected or documented tuberculosis.

Released: 9-May-2023 8:55 AM EDT
Can aspirin reduce heart attack and stroke risk in patients with pneumonia?
University of Bristol

A pneumonia trial – the largest ever led by the University of Bristol – will investigate whether aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke in patients who are admitted to hospital with pneumonia.

1-May-2023 3:25 PM EDT
Surgical resection is associated with superior 5-year survival compared to stereotactic body radiotherapy for early-stage lung cancer in healthy patients
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

A study at the Yale University School of Medicine looked at data from the National Cancer Database for this six-year period and compared the 5-year survival rates for patients who had surgical resection and patients who elected to have SBRT. Overall, 30,658 patients were identified, including 24,729 (80.7%) who underwent surgery and 5,929 (19.3%) treated with SBRT.

Released: 8-May-2023 12:00 PM EDT
Immunotherapy plus chemotherapy combination for advanced lung cancer not only prolongs life but also improves its quality
Wiley

A recent clinical trial showed that the drug combination of cemiplimab plus platinum chemotherapy can prolong survival in patients with advanced lung cancer when compared with placebo plus platinum chemotherapy. Now an analysis published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, indicates that cemiplimab plus platinum chemotherapy also affects quality of life compared to chemotherapy alone.

1-May-2023 3:55 PM EDT
Nitric Oxide Delivery via Oxygenator Protects Against Cardiopulmonary Bypass-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

Acute kidney injury (AKI) represents a major morbidity following cardiac surgery; and, when moderate or severe, it is strongly associated with postoperative mortality. Approximately one-third of adults and up to half of all children who undergo cardiac surgery develop some degree of postoperative AKI.

1-May-2023 3:20 PM EDT
Clinical Outcomes of more than 500 Lung Transplants using Ex vivo Lung Perfusion: A Large-Volume, Single-Center Retrospective Analysis
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

To compare the outcomes of patients receiving lungs transplanted after undergoing ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) versus those transplanted conventionally at the Toronto General Hospital, Aadil Ali, PhD, and coauthors looked at 14 years of data from the Toronto Lung Transplant Database.

1-May-2023 4:10 PM EDT
Long-term Outcome of Patients with Peripheral Ground Glass Opacity Dominant Lung Cancer After Sublobar Resections
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

In 2011, Makoto Suzuki, MD, and a team of associates from across Japan embarked on a long-term study of the safety and efficacy of sublobar resections for ground-glass opacity–dominant (GGO) peripheral lung cancer.

1-May-2023 3:35 PM EDT
Results of Early Monitoring of Circulating Tumor DNA in Resected Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

Among the questions that cancer patients ask following their surgeries are, “Will it come back? Do I need additional treatment?”

1-May-2023 4:30 PM EDT
Safety and Efficacy of Delaying Nighttime Lung Transplantation
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

Lung transplantation is routinely performed at night because of the unpredictability of donor organ procurement. Late start-times for complex operations such as lung transplantation have been associated with adverse outcomes.

1-May-2023 3:50 PM EDT
Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Representation and Salary among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. A wealth of data has shown that diversity in the physician workforce improves patient care, safety, physician well-being, and innovation; and fair compensation is essential to culturing a diverse workforce.

1-May-2023 4:10 PM EDT
The Early Outcome of Lung Transplantation from Donors who Tested Positive for COVID-19
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have rumbled through every piece of society, and nowhere more dramatically than in the medical communities.

1-May-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Air Quality and Lung Cancer in Wayne County, Mich.—a Large Urban/Suburban Study
American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in North America. Although cigarette smoking remains the main risk factor for lung cancer development, the importance of environmental factors such as pollution and poor air quality is becoming increasingly recognized.

Released: 5-May-2023 3:15 PM EDT
University of Maryland School of Medicine Genomic Scientist Claire M. Fraser Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced that Claire M. Fraser, PhD, the Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and the Founding Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), has been elected as a new member of the prestigious academy.

   
Released: 5-May-2023 12:40 PM EDT
What really killed COVID-19 patients: it wasn’t a cytokine storm
Northwestern University

Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation.

Newswise: Indigenous people in South America are twice as likely to die from wildfires
Released: 4-May-2023 8:00 PM EDT
Indigenous people in South America are twice as likely to die from wildfires
Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing

A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from smoke exposure due to wildfires than the broader South American population.

   
Released: 4-May-2023 1:40 PM EDT
Leading Physician-Scientist Dr. Bradley A. Maron Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine at UMSOM and Co-Director of new University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) at UMB
University of Maryland School of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, announced today that Bradley A. Maron, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System, has been appointed Co-Director of the UMB’s new Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC), Director of Scientific Operations for the UM-IHC at UMSOM, as well as Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine at the UMSOM, effective May 1, 2023.

   
Released: 4-May-2023 1:30 PM EDT
AACC Releases Guidance on Procalcitonin Testing to Improve Care for Patients with Bacterial Infections
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))

AACC has issued expert guidance on clinical testing for procalcitonin, a blood marker that helps detect serious bacterial infections and sepsis. By giving clinicians and laboratory professionals much-needed clarity on how to best use procalcitonin tests, the new guidelines could improve the treatment of critically ill patients and those with certain lower respiratory infections.

Released: 3-May-2023 2:10 PM EDT
How well do face masks worn by children block the release of exhaled particles?
Wiley

New research published in Pediatric Investigation provides evidence that face masks reduce the release of exhaled particles when used by school-aged children.

Newswise: Association of American Physicians Taps Cedars-Sinai Leader as President-Elect
Released: 3-May-2023 1:40 PM EDT
Association of American Physicians Taps Cedars-Sinai Leader as President-Elect
Cedars-Sinai

Physician-scientist Paul Noble, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, was named president-elect of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) at the group's annual meeting in Chicago on April 22.

Released: 2-May-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Climate change affecting allergies, and other allergy news
Newswise

For millions of Americans that suffer from seasonal allergies (pollen and mold), climate change is exacerbating an earlier, longer, and overall worse allergy season.

Newswise: Smidt Heart Institute Surgeons Available for Interviews During AATS Annual Meeting
Released: 2-May-2023 1:00 PM EDT
Smidt Heart Institute Surgeons Available for Interviews During AATS Annual Meeting
Cedars-Sinai

Throughout the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, taking place May 6-9 in Los Angeles, experts from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai will be available to discuss advances and innovations in cardiothoracic surgery.

Released: 1-May-2023 7:30 PM EDT
Coal trains increase air pollution in San Francisco bay area
University of California, Davis

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution to urban areas, more so than other freight or passenger trains, according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis.

Released: 1-May-2023 11:45 AM EDT
Occludin protein plays key role in spread of coronavirus throughout body’s cells
University of Missouri, Columbia

While the coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified a specific protein inside the human body that plays a critical role in how the virus spreads from cell to cell after infection — a discovery that will help better understand the COVID-19 disease and could lead to the development of new antiviral drugs in the future.

Released: 1-May-2023 10:05 AM EDT
AJRCCM “Abstracts Issue” Showcases Research at the ATS 2023 International Conference
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Get a sneak-peak at what’s coming up at the ATS 2023 later this month with today’s online release of the “American Thoracic Society International Conference Abstracts.”

Newswise: Chula Researchers Develop a Rapid MTB Strip Test for Tuberculosis Hoping to Spread to Community Hospitals and Reduce the Number of Patients
Released: 28-Apr-2023 8:55 AM EDT
Chula Researchers Develop a Rapid MTB Strip Test for Tuberculosis Hoping to Spread to Community Hospitals and Reduce the Number of Patients
Chulalongkorn University

Lecturers of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University have developed MTB Strip Test Kit for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis that’s accurate and easy to use, guaranteed by the 2023 Invention Award from the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) — Another hope to reduce the spread of tuberculosis in Thailand.

   
Released: 27-Apr-2023 8:10 PM EDT
Genomes from 240 mammal species explain human disease risks
Uppsala University

Research shows which regions have important functions in mammals, which genetic changes have led to specific characteristics in different species and which mutations can cause

   
Released: 27-Apr-2023 3:00 PM EDT
ATS 2023 International Conference Announces Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

One of the most highly-anticipated events at the ATS 2023 International Conference, which kicks off May 19, is the “Breaking News: Clinical Trial Results in Pulmonary Medicine.” Taking place on Monday, May 22, the series of presentations will focus on the latest regarding COPD and asthma treatment.

Released: 27-Apr-2023 2:50 PM EDT
Researchers call for national governments to mandate real-time indoor air quality monitoring
Tsinghua University Press

In a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers has published an editorial calling for national governments to consider mandating real-time indoor air quality monitoring in at least all public buildings.

   
Newswise: Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease: What you Need to Know
Released: 27-Apr-2023 10:30 AM EDT
Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease: What you Need to Know
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

Post-COVID interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a relatively unknown disease, making it important to understand the resources and treatment options available for those affected by the disease.



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