http://medicineworld.org/news/lung-news.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily lung watch news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld lung disease related news service is the most comprehensive lung disease watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/blogs/lung-cancer/lung-surgery.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/lung-news.html 101 85 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/pollution-damage-to-human-airways.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/pollution-damage-to-human-airways.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Scientists from Duke University Medical Center have identified how nanoparticles from diesel exhaust damage lung airway cells, a finding that could lead to new therapies for people susceptible to airway disease. The researchers also discovered that the severity of the injury depends on the genetic make-up of the affected individual........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/vitamin-d-deficiencies-and-autoimmune-lung-disease.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2011/vitamin-d-deficiencies-and-autoimmune-lung-disease.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT A newly released study shows that vitamin D deficiency could be associated with the development and severity of certain autoimmune lung diseases. These findings are being published in the Jan. 4 edition of the journal Chest Brent Kinder, MD, UC Health pulmonologist, director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Center at the University of Cincinnati and lead investigator on the study, says vitamin D deficiencies have been found to affect the development of other autoimmune diseases, like lupus and type 1 diabetes........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2010/treat-respiratory-failure.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2010/treat-respiratory-failure.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Scientists are reporting this week newly released study results they say provide further evidence of the therapeutic potential of stem cells derived from bone marrow for patients suffering from acute lung injury, one of the most common causes of respiratory failure in intensive care units. Led by Drs. Michael A. Matthay and Jae W. Lee at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, the team writes in a Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" that its experiments have revealed how a type of bone marrow stem cell bolsters damaged lung cells........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/new-potential-to-treat-copd.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/new-potential-to-treat-copd.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined by emphysema and/or chronic bronchitis. It destroys the normal architecture of the lung and inhibits the mechanical aspects of breathing, which prevents necessary gas exchange. Patients suffer from coughing fits, wheezing, and increased occurence rate of lung infections. These symptoms are linked to changes in the architecture of the lung. The air sacs, which commonly inflate with air during breathing as they loose their elasticity, becoming rigid and unable to inflate. The lung becomes inflamed and increases its mucus production, which further inhibits gas exchange, and prevents the patient's ability to be physically active........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/copd-and-heart-function.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/copd-and-heart-function.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT A common lung condition, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) diminishes the heart's ability to pump effectively even when the disease has no or mild symptoms, as per research reported in the Jan. 21 issue of the New England Journal (NEJM) The study is the first time scientists have shown strong links between heart function and mild COPD. The research was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/exposure-to-tobacco-in-childhood.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/exposure-to-tobacco-in-childhood.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that the lungs may not recover completely from the effects of early-life exposures to tobacco smoke (ETS). The study is reported in the December 2009 American Journal of Epidemiology....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/pollution-can-increase-the-risk-of-penumonia.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/pollution-can-increase-the-risk-of-penumonia.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Elderly adults with long-term exposure to higher levels of pollution are at higher risk for hospitalization for pneumonia, as per scientists in Canada. "Our study observed that among older individuals, long-term exposure to traffic pollution independently increased their risk of hospitalization for pneumonia," said principal investigator, Mark Loeb, M.D., of McMaster University........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/protein-that-causes-cystic-fibrosis.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2009/protein-that-causes-cystic-fibrosis.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT A team of scientists studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances it might go awry. "Understanding the regulation of salt transport in normal cells is critical for the development of new therapies for diseases, like CF, that disrupt salt movements across cell borders," said Jeng-Haur Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the main author on a paper to be reported in the Dec. 18 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/overweight-breathing-and-sleep-disorders.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/overweight-breathing-and-sleep-disorders.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Overweight individuals are not just at greater risk of having sleep-disordered-breathing (SDB), they are also likely to suffer greater consequences, as per new research. As per the study, to be reported in the October 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, an official publication of the American Thoracic Society, excess weight increased the severity of oxygen desaturation in the blood of individuals with SDB during and after apneas and hypopneas........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/triple-therapy-for-copd.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/triple-therapy-for-copd.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can benefit from triple treatment that includes a long-acting and#946;-agonist (LABA), an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and an anti-muscarinic agent, as per scientists in Gera number of. In the study, which will appear in the October 15 issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, scientists observed that adding budesonide, an ICS, and formoterol, a LABA, to the anti-muscarinic agent, tiotropium, reduced the rate of severe exacerbations in COPD patients by 62 percent. Triple treatment also resulted in significant improvements on many outcome parameters in COPD patients, including lung function, signs and symptoms, and quality of life........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/new-vaccine-shows-promise-for-copd-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/new-vaccine-shows-promise-for-copd-patients.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT A new vaccine against pneumonia may offer better protection from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients than the currently accepted vaccine, as per recent research that would be reported in the September 15 issue of the American Journal of the Respiratory and Critical Care Journal, a publication of the American Thoracic Society........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2009/supervised-exercise-program-for-copd-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/4-2009/supervised-exercise-program-for-copd-patients.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Those suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often complain that exercise is too exhausting and leaves them breathless. An article in the current issue of the New England Journal (NEJM) reports that supervised exercise through pulmonary rehabilitation can actually reduce their feelings of breathlessness, increase their tolerance for exercise and improve their quality of life........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/global-warming-and-respiratory-problems.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/global-warming-and-respiratory-problems.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT High summer temperatures, pushed higher by global climate change, may bring with them a spike in hospitalizations for respiratory problems, as per an analysis of data from twelve European cities, from Dublin to Valencia. The data comes from the "Evaluation and Prevention of Acute Health Effects of Weather Conditions in Europe" (PHEWE), a multi-center, three-year collaboration between epidemiologists, meteorologists and experts in public health collaboration that investigated the short-term effects of weather in Europe........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/chronic-lung-diseases-in-smokers.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/chronic-lung-diseases-in-smokers.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT Eventhough the immune system is designed to protect the body from harm, it may actually worsen one of the most difficult-to-treat respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), as per new University of Cincinnati (UC) research. In a preclinical research study, UC environmental health researchers have identified a link between cigarette smoke and activation of a specific cellular receptor (NKG2D) critical to immune system activation. They say the finding is key to understanding COPD disease progression and developing future interventional drug therapies........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/sleep-apnea-may-be-cured.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2009/sleep-apnea-may-be-cured.html Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:16:07 GMT For sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a newly released study shows that losing weight is perhaps the single most effective way to reduce OSA symptoms and associated disorders, as per a newly released study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, one of the American Thoracic Society's three peer-evaluated journals........ ]]>