COPD News

• Weed Damages Lungs; Race and Cancer Trials; and Stillbirths Rise The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, November 16, 2022
• Buzz Kill: Lung Damage Looks Worse in Pot Smokers Contrary to earlier assumptions, cannabis smokers had more extensive lung damage than tobacco users, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• Don't Let Amoxicillin Shortage Go to Waste, Abx Stewards Say Experts are trying to view the shortage of a commonly used antibiotic as an opportunity to cut down on overuse of the drugs in general.
  Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2022
• AHA 2022 EHR-based Thromboembolism Risk Tools Boosts Prophylaxis A clinical decision-support tool designed to identify hospitalized patients in need of VTE prophylaxis cut the rate of thromboembolism at 30 days in the randomized IMPROVE-DD VTE trial.
  MDedge News, November 08, 2022
• CHEST 2022 Pulmonologist Consult at COPD Admission Reduces Risk of Return In patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on admission, an early pulmonologist consult reduces the 90-day rate of readmission.
  Medscape Medical News, November 03, 2022
• Medicare Fines for High Hospital Readmissions Drop Federal officials said they are penalizing 2273 hospitals, the fewest since 2014. Driving the decline was a change in the formula to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Kaiser Health News, November 01, 2022
• Finerenone Signals Pneumonia, COVID-19 Benefits Secondary analyses from 13,026 people with type 2 diabetes and CKD in the finerenone pivotal trials showed that the agent was linked with less infective pneumonia and blunted COVID-19 severity.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2022
• Sleeping 5 Hours or Less a Night Linked to Chronic Illness Maintaining healthy sleep habits may ward off chronic health problems down the road, according to a sleep researcher who studied thousands of participants over the course of 25 years.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2022
• CHEST 2022 Large Trial of Home-Based COPD Rehab Shows Positive Results A randomized trial has shown that home-based rehabilitation monitored by a remote coach improves physical activity and quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2022
• Climate Change Magnifies Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Smoke- and ash-filled air can trigger or exacerbate severe respiratory conditions. But the medical specialists who treat these illnesses are often scarce where they are most in need.
  Kaiser Health News, October 12, 2022
• Reduced Exercise Capacity Further Explained in Untreated OSA Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have evidence of pulmonary gas exchange abnormalities and resting vascular dysfunction.
  Medscape Medical News, October 11, 2022
• Adding Cardiac Shockwave to CABG Boosts LVEF, Function, QoL Direct epicardial cardiac shockwave therapy adjunctive to CABG might lead to a paradigm shift in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy, researchers suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, October 11, 2022
• Home-Based Palliative Care Improves Heart Failure Outcomes Patients with chronic heart failure who got palliative care at home were almost 50% more likely to die at home than in the hospital, compared with patients who received usual care
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Primary Care Doctors' Knowledge of IPF Could Speed Up Diagnoses Prompt diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is essential to reduce mortality, and improving education of primary care providers can help.
  MDedge News, September 28, 2022
• Sound Sick? New AI Technology Might Tell If It's COVID Researchers are developing AI speech analysis that could detect SARS-CoV-2 infections better than a rapid test. It's the latest innovation in a growing field exploring voice as a diagnostic tool.
  WebMD Health News, September 19, 2022
• ILD on the Rise, Doctors Offer Tips for Diagnosing Deadly Disease The rise of lung scarring signs like shortness of breath alongside COVID-19 had made the condition more difficult to diagnose.
  MDedge News, September 14, 2022
• Risk Index Better Predicts Brain Tumor Resection Complications The Risk Analysis Index is better at forecasting in-hospital complications than the often-used frailty index. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, September 13, 2022
• ERS 2022 Lung Volume Reduction Methods Show Similar Results for Emphysema Surgical lung volume reduction was not superior to bronchoscopic reduction with endobrachial valves at improving symptoms of emphysema.
  Medscape Medical News, September 09, 2022
• ERS 2022 Biomarker-Guided Steroid Therapy Shown Safe for COPD Treatment failure rates not significantly lower for eosinophil-guided prescribing of corticosteroids compared with empiric prescribing.
  Medscape Medical News, September 07, 2022
• ERS 2022 RETHINC Takes Air Out of COPD-like Therapy for Smokers Dual-acting bronchodilators were no better than placebo for symptoms in smokers without airway obstruction.
  Medscape Medical News, September 06, 2022