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FDA Warns Company Selling Misbranded Drugs With False Claims
Childhood Asthma Risk May Be Affected by Umbilical Artery Flow
KIF3A Interaction With Food Sensitization Predicts Asthma Risk in Children
Sleep Disordered Breathing Prevalence High in Adolescent Athletes
Mechanical Ventilation May Be On Decline After Medicaid Expansion
Childhood Asthma Not Affected by High-Dose Vitamin D Given in Pregnancy
Rapid Bone Mineral Density Declines Increase Vertebral Fracture Risk in COPD
Children With Asthma More Likely To Struggle in School, Study Says
How Preventable Is Sepsis-Associated Death in Hospitalized Adults?
Chronic Rhinosinusitis Associated With Risk for Depression and Anxiety
Gender, Age, and Etiology Do Not Affect Response to PAH Treatment
AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Guidelines for Immigrant Patient Care
Limiting the Documentation of Patient Immigration Status in Medical Records
COPD Exacerbation Hospitalization Risk Factors Differ by Sex
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Why Does Asthma Prevail? A Clinician’s Opinion on Nonadherence
Tregony Simoneau, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist, shares her experiences with nonadherence in treating asthma. -
Resisting Antibiotic Overprescription in Pneumonia: An Expert Roundtable
A shift toward personalized medicine in pneumonia management would involve refining the diagnostic categories to include viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and noninfectious respiratory disease. -
Consequences of Bacterial and Viral Coinfections in Pneumonia
Diagnosing coinfection in pneumonia can be challenging because of timing of the sample collection and false-negative results when the viruses replicate in the lower respiratory tract. -
Malignant Pleural Effusion
What every physician needs to know: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a common clinical problem that results in disabling breathlessness for patients with advanced malignancy. It represents disseminated disease and confers a poor prognosis. Patients often require multiple invasive procedures in order to gain a diagnosis and manage their symptomatic pleural effusions, which impacts their… -
PH Screening Adaptions for Certain Subtypes of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Because standardized approaches for echocardiographic screening are impractical for certain subgroups of people with congenital heart disease, experts offered screening adaptations for pulmonary hypertension.
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New ACC/AHA Guideline for Primary Prevention of CVD Presented at ACC 2019
The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have released a new evidence-based guideline detailing the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Better Guidelines for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism During Pregnancy Needed
Current guidelines to diagnosis pulmonary embolism in pregnant patients offer conflicting recommendations.
Legionella Outbreaks on the Rise: Could Climate Change Be Responsible?
Lack of plumbing maintenance; aging infrastructure; warm, humid climates; and exposure to the immunocompromised may contribute to an increase in Legionnaires disease.
