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Study reveals potential health risks associated with burning of incense in indoor environments

The burning of incense might need to come with a health warning. This follows the first study evaluating the health risks associated with its indoor use. The effects of incense and cigarette smoke were also compared, and made for some surprising results. The research was led by Rong Zhou of the South China University of Technology and the China Tobacco Guangdong Industrial Company in China, and is published in Springer's journal Environmental Chemistry Letters.

25 Aug 2015

Electronic triggers can help identify, reduce follow-up delays in evaluation for cancer diagnosis

Electronic triggers designed to search for key data, developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, were able to identify and reduce follow-up delays for patients being evaluated for a diagnosis of colon or prostate cancer.

25 Aug 2015

Researchers reveal new electrical mechanism that can control molecular switches regulating cancer cell growth

The molecular switches regulating human cell growth do a great job of replacing cells that die during the course of a lifetime. But when they misfire, life-threatening cancers can occur. Research led by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has revealed a new electrical mechanism that can control these switches.

25 Aug 2015

Researchers awarded $6.4 million grant to identify causes of neurodevelopmental disorders in children with CHDs

As advances in medicine are giving rise to growing numbers of children who are surviving severe heart defects, a phenomenon is emerging that is catching parents and healthcare providers off-guard. Over half of these children also have a seemingly unrelated disability: neurodevelopmental disorders. Some have severe cognitive and motor deficits that arise early.

25 Aug 2015

IQWiG dossier assessment finds added benefit of afatinib in patients with certain mutations

Afatinib (trade name: Giotrif) has been approved since September 2013 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGF receptor mutations who have not been treated with an EGF receptor tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (EGFR TKI).

21 Aug 2015

Adolescent e-cigarette users more likely to start smoking

As e-cigarette usage among high school students continues to climb, a recent study from The Journal of the American Medical Association reveals an unsettling trend: that adolescent e-cigarette users are more likely than their non-vaping peers to initiate use of combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars and hookahs. The reason may lie in a common denominator between e-cigarettes and their combustible counterparts: nicotine.

21 Aug 2015

Failure To Rescue After Complications Defines Lung Cancer Resection Survival

The variation in mortality rates among patients undergoing lung cancer resection in US hospitals has been attributed by a cohort study to differences in failure-to-rescue rates after the development of complications.

20 Aug 2015

NYBC, UC Davis Health System partner to manufacture potential stem cell therapies

New York Blood Center today announced a new collaboration with the University of California, Davis, Health System to manufacture specialized lines of stem cells as potential therapies for repair and regeneration of retina, kidney, lung and liver tissue, as well as for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

20 Aug 2015

Landmark 'basket study' shows efficacy of vemurafenib in multiple nonmelanoma BRAFV600-mutated cancers

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have announced results from the first published basket study, a new form of clinical trial design that explores responses to drugs based on the specific mutations in patients' tumors rather than where their cancer originated.

20 Aug 2015

Discovery provides new insights into how asthma may be caused

Researchers from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, working with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Genentech, have discovered new insights into how asthma may be caused, by identifying three distinct groups of asthma patients characterised by the activity of different genes in an individual's airways.

20 Aug 2015

NC State researchers develop new algorithm that interprets patients’ wheezing sounds over time

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an efficient algorithm that can interpret the wheezing of patients with breathing difficulties to give medical providers information about what's happening in the lungs.

20 Aug 2015

Experimental MERS-CoV vaccine shows promise in monkeys and camels

National Institutes of Health scientists and colleagues report that an experimental vaccine given six weeks before exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) fully protects rhesus macaques from disease. The vaccine also generated potentially protective MERS-CoV antibodies in blood drawn from vaccinated camels.

20 Aug 2015

New supercomputer models can capture the behavior of human heart valves

New supercomputer models have come closer than ever to capturing the behavior of normal human heart valves and their replacements, according to recent studies by groups including scientists at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University.

20 Aug 2015

EnGeneIC begins Phase 1 Tailored-EDV trial for advanced solid tumor

EnGeneIC Ltd., an emerging biopharmaceutical company focused on developing its proprietary EDV™ nanocell platform for the targeted delivery of cancer therapeutics, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in its Phase 1 Tailored-EDV trial. The trial is being conducted at the Northern Cancer Institute in Sydney, Australia.

19 Aug 2015

UC Davis researchers set out to identify biomarkers for early diagnosis of lung cancer

Despite decades of warnings about smoking, lung cancer is still the second-most common cancer and the leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S. Patients are often diagnosed only when their disease is already at an advanced stage and hard to treat. Researchers at the West Coast Metabolomics Center at UC Davis are trying to change that, by identifying biomarkers that could be the basis of early tests for lung cancer.

19 Aug 2015

Only 1 in 10 heart failure patients referred to cardiac rehabilitation program after hospitalization

Only 1 in 10 heart failure patients is referred to a cardiac rehabilitation program after being hospitalized, despite strong evidence that such exercise programs improve quality of life and reduce the likelihood of future hospitalizations.

19 Aug 2015

E-cigarettes becoming more widely available in developing countries

Most of the debate around e-cigarettes has focused on the developed world, but the devices are becoming more widely available in some low- and middle-income countries, where there is even greater potential for impact on public health, say two Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.

19 Aug 2015

U-M microbiome research may lead to new ways to prevent, fight lung infections in patients

With every breath you take, microbes have a chance of making it into your lungs. But what happens when they get there? And why do dangerous lung infections like pneumonia happen in some people, but not others? Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School have started to answer these questions by studying the microbiome of the lungs - the community of microscopic organisms that are in constant contact with our respiratory system.

18 Aug 2015

Muscle mass appears to ward off bad cardiovascular effects of obesity

Even without losing fat, more muscle appears to go a long way in fighting off the bad cardiovascular effects of obesity. That emerging evidence has scientists looking hard for new targets to uncouple the unhealthy relationship between fat and cardiovascular disease.

18 Aug 2015

New OTEMTO phase three results show potential improvement to quality of life for COPD patients

Boehringer Ingelheim announced the publication of new data from the Phase IIIb OTEMTO® 1&2 trials (NCT01964352/NCT02006732), which show Spiolto® Respimat® (tiotropium/olodaterol) provides consistent, clinically meaningful improvements in quality of life versus placebo in patients with COPD

17 Aug 2015

Lungs News and Research

Study reveals potential health risks associated with burning of incense in indoor environments

Electronic triggers can help identify, reduce follow-up delays in evaluation for cancer diagnosis

Researchers reveal new electrical mechanism that can control molecular switches regulating cancer cell growth

Researchers awarded $6.4 million grant to identify causes of neurodevelopmental disorders in children with CHDs

IQWiG dossier assessment finds added benefit of afatinib in patients with certain mutations

Adolescent e-cigarette users more likely to start smoking

Failure To Rescue After Complications Defines Lung Cancer Resection Survival

NYBC, UC Davis Health System partner to manufacture potential stem cell therapies

Landmark 'basket study' shows efficacy of vemurafenib in multiple nonmelanoma BRAFV600-mutated cancers

Discovery provides new insights into how asthma may be caused

NC State researchers develop new algorithm that interprets patients’ wheezing sounds over time

Experimental MERS-CoV vaccine shows promise in monkeys and camels

New supercomputer models can capture the behavior of human heart valves

EnGeneIC begins Phase 1 Tailored-EDV trial for advanced solid tumor

UC Davis researchers set out to identify biomarkers for early diagnosis of lung cancer

Only 1 in 10 heart failure patients referred to cardiac rehabilitation program after hospitalization

E-cigarettes becoming more widely available in developing countries

U-M microbiome research may lead to new ways to prevent, fight lung infections in patients

Muscle mass appears to ward off bad cardiovascular effects of obesity

New OTEMTO phase three results show potential improvement to quality of life for COPD patients

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