Pulmonology
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Cost of Drugs Can Be Breathtaking for COPD Patients
A recent cross-sectional study showed that nearly one in six patients in the United States reported missing a COPD drug dose, lowering the dose,...
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Quitting Smoking Boosts Life Expectancy at Any Age
“These findings may be valuable for clinicians seeking scientific evidence to motivate their patients who smoke to quit.”
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Specific Antipsychotics Linked to Increased Pneumonia Risk
Only the use of antipsychotics with high anticholinergic potency was associated with pneumonia risk.
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Sex-Related Differences Found in IgG4-Related Disease Epidemiology
A recent study highlighted sex-based differences in manifestations of IgG4-related disease.
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Autoantibodies Nonspecific to Systemic Sclerosis May Play Role in ILD Prediction
Anti-Ro/SSA antibodies predicted which patients were at most risk for ILD but not ILD progression or overall disease progression and death.
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Chronotherapy: Why Timing Drugs to Our Body Clocks May Work
More research showed circadian medicine — timing drug-taking to one’s body clock — could reduce side effects and improve the effectiveness of a...
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Seniors in Households with Children Have Sixfold Higher Risk for Pneumococcal Disease
Regular contact with children, especially preschoolers, appeared to be the biggest pneumococcal infection risk for seniors — and should guide PCV...
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Inebilizumab ‘MITIGATES’ Flare Risk in IgG4-Related Disease
Inebilizumab-cdon reduced the risk for flares by 87% in patients with IgG4-RD, the MITIGATE study showed.
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Why Are We Undertreating So Many Pulmonary Embolisms?
Based on deidentified data, less than half of one percent of patients who experience a PE receive advanced therapy.
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Could a Fungal Infection Cause a Future Pandemic?
Fungal infections are generally not passed between individuals and immunocompetence makes most infections unlikely, but multidrug resistance could...
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AI Tools Could Change Pulmonological Imaging and Prognosis
Radiomics, AI, and other tools may help image processing for diagnosis or prognosis.