Laurel Ranger

Direct-to-consumer television advertising may not be the best place to provide cost information on prescription drugs and biologic products.

Physicians have a moral obligation to protect their patients from both physical and financial harms associated with pharmaceutical therapies.

The term “intensive care unit” (ICU) was meant to refer to the intensity of the resources allocated to patient care.

Excessive numbers of negative clinical trials — many of which may be false-negative trials — are a major impediment to the advancement of critical care medicine.

Universal health coverage has been proposed as a way of improving access to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries.

Continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnea in patients with type 2 diabetes offered no improvement in visual acuity compared with usual care alone.

Forskolin-induced swelling in intestinal organoids is a clinically relevant biomarker of disease severity in infants diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

After 12 months, patients in the Urban Training™ group had increased their number of daily steps by 816 compared with 64 steps in the usual care group.

Additional bronchodilation and hyperinflation reduction occurred in COPD when RPL554, an inhaled PDE 3 and 4 inhibitor, was combined with standard bronchodilators.

Children of East Asian-born parents had an increased risk for allergic rhinitis and aeroallergen sensitization compared with children of Caucasian ancestry.

Total omega-3 and omega-6 plasma polyunsaturated fatty acids relative abundances were significantly inversely correlated with asthma/recurrent wheeze and allergic sensitization.

There were no statistically significant differences in mortality rates, rates of COPD exacerbations, lung inflammation, or serious adverse events between a once-daily combined inhaled corticosteroid/LABA and LAMA.

Although allergic sensitization and hay fever rates increased as children grew older, the rates of asthma dropped.

Oxygen saturation at induction and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure were the risk factors most strongly associated with lower oxygen saturation.

Salvage treatment for recurrence of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer after initial treatment with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy improved patient survival.

In a population of primarily Latino children from low-income households, a program of school-supervised use of once-daily inhaled corticosteroids failed to improve asthma control.

Adding routine rheumatologic assessments to interstitial lung disease diagnosis could reduce the need for invasive procedures and improve diagnostic accuracy.

Significant negative correlations were seen between visceral fat area and bronchial lumen diameter and lumen area, and significant positive correlations were seen between subcutaneous fat area and bronchial wall area and total area.

Although preterm infants had abnormal tidal breathing measurements, significant differences were not found to be associated with postdischarge respiratory disease.

In patients with emphysema, deposition fraction was significantly lower than in other individuals, but no significant differences were found between healthy never smokers and current or former smokers.

Corticosteroids should not be used concomitantly with antiviral therapy in patients with influenza pneumonia.

Prior use of systemic corticosteroids and prior isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were risk factors associated with the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in COPD.

A providers’ capacity to feel compassion is affected in part by the practice environment.

In recent years, more healthcare professionals are choosing to work for organizations rather than starting their own practice.

Lactate clearance improved in patients who presented with septic shock who were given thiamine within 24 hours of hospital admission.

Asthma was not associated with a risk for intestinal resection surgery in patients with Crohn disease.

D-dimer can serve as a sensitive test for pulmonary embolism in adolescents.

An expert panel developed suggestions for chronic cough management in interstitial lung disease, but more clinical trials are needed to establish recommendations.

Many patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in an international phase 4 study tolerated combination therapy with pirfenidone and nintedanib.

Dual users of conventional cigarettes and electronic cigarettes had the highest prevalence of respiratory symptoms.