Topic: European Respiratory Society
Editor's Choice An international study of asthma, published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal, has for the first...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new report links remnants of a once-common pesticide to lung infections and wheezing in kids exposed to the chemical before birth.Known as DDE, the compound is a broken-down form of the harmful pesticide DDT and is ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People in Bangladesh exposed to high levels of arsenic in drinking water were more likely to report shortness of breath in a new study than those who drank water with safer arsenic concentrations.Though researchers didn't try ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding extra daily servings of fruits and vegetables didn't improve lung function or other markers of lung health in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a new study from Northern Ireland.The lung disease, which ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Confirming widespread beliefs by doctors and parents alike, the color of phlegm coughed up by people is indeed a good indicator of whether that person has a bacterial infection, an international group of researchers found.Green or yellow ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite some evidence tying the mineral selenium to a reduced risk of lung cancer, a new long-term study sees no connection between the two.In fact, researchers found that among heavy smokers, those with the highest selenium levels ...
New York (Reuters Health) - Urban cyclists may be exposed to more than twice as much black carbon from vehicle exhaust as pedestrians, a small new study suggests.By examining airway cells in sputum samples from ten people, researchers in London found black ...
Novartis' (NVS) respiratory ambitions are comfortably on track. In the wake of the first significant presentation of pivotal data on NVA237 and an...
Posted on 09/27/11 at 8:11am by Jonathan Chen . Piper Jaffray is out with a research report on Theravance Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX ) and it has an...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A device that allows doctors to remotely monitor children with poorly controlled asthma may not help reduce serious asthma attacks, a small study finds.The study, reported in the European Respiratory Journal, included 45 French children with poorly ...