COPD News

• Children's Hospitals Grapple With Young COVID 'Long Haulers' "There's just no research there," she said. "Kids are not supposed to have this kind of condition."
  Kaiser Health News, March 03, 2021
• Most Severe COVID Tied to Four Cardiometabolic Conditions The authors of a new study are calling for stronger public health lifestyle advice to minimize the risk for COVID-19 hospitalization.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Patients With Asthma and COPD Lost Ground in Accessing Care "The longer-term picture is that people with asthma and COPD are struggling to obtain needed medical care and medications despite a substantial reduction in the uninsurance rate."
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Organ Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving COVID-Infected Lungs Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of COVID-19 in the US in which the virus was transmitted via an organ transplant.
  Kaiser Health News, February 22, 2021
• Stem Cell Fraud Case Sparks Concern Over Unmatched Docs' Role A recently elected Missouri state representative and assistant physician faces federal fraud charges after patients were duped into thinking they were receiving stem cell treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Delaying Antibiotics for Pediatric Respiratory Infections For pediatric patients with respiratory tract infections, immediately prescribing antibiotics may do more harm than good.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Inhaled Hyaluronan May Bring Sigh of Relief to COPD Patients Aerosolized high-molecular-weight hyaluronan may improve acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, findings of a new study suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, February 11, 2021
• GME Funding Tied to Better Outcomes, Resident Scores However, hospitals are not financially healthier with more GME funding, new data show. But researchers agree transparency and equitable distribution are lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, February 09, 2021
• Fossil Fuel Pollution Causes One in Five Premature Deaths Globally: Study Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously thought, according to a study released on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 09, 2021
• WCLC 2020 Screening for Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers 'Feasible' Screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has so far been targeted to smokers, but screening of never-smokers is "feasible," say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2021
• New COPD Mortality Risk Model Includes Imaging-Derived Variables All-cause mortality in patients with COPD over 10 years of follow-up was accurately predicted by a newly developed model based on a point system incorporating imaging-derived variables.
  Medscape Medical News, January 28, 2021
• Mental Illness Tied to High Risk of Physical Disease, Death Mental illness in young individuals is associated with a strikingly high risk of subsequent physical illness, disability, and premature mortality, results of a large longitudinal study show.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2021
• Asthma-COPD Overlap: Patients Have High Disease Burden Patients with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap (ACO) experienced a higher burden of disease than patients with either asthma or COPD alone, a recent study has found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• Independent NPs: What's the Evidence? As more states change scope-of-practice laws to allow nurse practitioners to practice independently, what does the evidence on health outcomes show?
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2021
• Screen COPD Patients With Worsening Lung Function for Pulmonary Embolism? About 6% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are admitted to the hospital with worsening respiratory symptoms will have pulmonary embolism, new research from France suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 05, 2021
• COVID Disrupts Lung Cancer Screens: One Center's Account The pandemic has again disrupted cancer care, this time a lung cancer screening program in which fewer patients were screened and more advanced nodules were found among those who were screened during the crisis.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2020
• Novartis Receives FDA Complete Response Letter on Inclisiran The FDA was unable to approve the new drug application for inclisiran, a novel treatment to lower LDL cholesterol, owing to unresolved facility inspection concerns, the company said.
  News Alerts, December 21, 2020
• Unhealthy Fathers-to-be Could Raise the Risk of Pregnancy Loss The risk of pregnancy loss may be greater when prospective fathers have chronic conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, December 18, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2-Exposed Donor Lungs Transplanted Successfully A team from Belgium has reported a successful double-lung transplant from a donor previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.
  Reuters Health Information, December 11, 2020
• Possible Warning Clinicians Can Miss Before an HF Admission It may be common not to heed the signal, but that's a missed opportunity to arrive at a heart failure diagnosis that might otherwise be made only after the patient is admitted, a study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020