Pulmonary Medicine News

• Olympus Issues Recall Correction for Bronchoscopes The US Food and Drug Administration noted that use of devices may cause serious injury or death, but products are not being removed at this time.
  Medscape Medical News, December 22, 2023
• Monoclonal Antibodies: A New Treatment for Long COVID? A small study generated impressive results.
  Medscape Medical News, December 22, 2023
• Adenotonsillectomy Doesn't Better Cognitive Function in Kids Early adenotonsillectomy improved quality of life, symptoms, behavior, and blood pressure compared with watchful waiting.
  Medscape Medical News, December 22, 2023
• Flavored E-cigs Still Sold to Minors, Despite Law Online sales of flavored e-cigarettes to minors appeared to continue, despite a California law.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2023
• New Research Aims to Unravel Both ME/CFS and Long COVID A 2-day research conference sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health highlighted research that points to mechanisms that suggest potentially "druggable" pathways.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2023
• When's Best to Re-dose Rituximab After Vasculitis Remission? A single-center study found that using B-cell levels to determine when to infuse rituximab reduced relapses in patients antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody vasculitis.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2023
• COVID Strain JN.1 Is Now a 'Variant of Interest,' WHO Says JN.1 was previously grouped with its relative, BA.2.86, but has increased so much in the past 4 weeks that the WHO moved it to standalone status.
  WebMD Health News, December 21, 2023
• Systemic Bias in AI Models May Undermine Diagnostic Accuracy However, standard AI model predictions enhanced diagnostic accuracy by 4.4%.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2023
• More Evidence Suggests That 'Long Flu' Is a Thing You may have never heard of it, but you may have had it. More evidence points to "long flu" being a real phenomenon.
  WebMD Health News, December 20, 2023
• Infection Main Cause of Nonrelapse Death With CAR T Therapy Infections, cardiopulmonary disease, and second cancers were among the leading causes of nonrelapse deaths in patients receiving CAR T-cell therapy, both in clinical trials and clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2023
• Recent TB Infection Rare Among Immigrants to Canada Data suggest that few immigrants to Canada with tuberculosis infection were infected within the preceding 2 years, when the risk for progression to tuberculosis disease is the highest.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2023
• COPD Exacerbations: BET With Prednisolone Noninferior to ST Results of a randomized trial suggest that blood eosinophil-directed prednisolone can be an option to reduce glucocorticoid use in COPD patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2023
• Long-COVID Risks Vary Widely by State, Region: New Study The analysis in PLOS ONE also found that people struggling with long COVID are more likely to report mental health or mobility problems, according to the analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Catheter-Directed Plan Improves Pulmonary Artery Occlusion The Bashir endovascular catheter was designed to maximize thrombus reduction via a pharmacomechanical infusion.
  MDedge News, December 18, 2023
• AI Aids in Monitoring Asthma in Young Children If introduced on a large scale, an AI-assisted home stethoscope might make asthma diagnosis more straightforward and facilitate asthma monitoring, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• One Fifth of Americans Report Use of Hemp-Derived Products Adults who used delta-8 THC were more likely to live in states where cannabis use is illegal.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Infections Down in Acute Care Hospitals Prevention strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections are having an effect, according to a new report on national- and state-level incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Novo Owner Commits $265 Million Of Wegovy Windfall to Respiratory Diseases The Novo Nordisk Foundation, which controls drug maker Novo Nordisk, said on Monday it would commit up to 1.8 billion Danish crowns ($265 million) to setting up an...
  Reuters Health Information, December 18, 2023
• Top 10 Fictional Docs on Streaming TV Both tried-and-true and out-of-the-ordinary holiday gift ideas are offered to those seeking a great present for a physician.
  Medscape News Slideshows, December 15, 2023
• Bird Flu Spreads in Europe With a Delay After Warm Autumn Bird flu is spreading fast in Europe but arrived later this year after a warm autumn delayed migration of wild birds, the main carriers of the virus that led to the death of...
  Reuters Health Information, December 14, 2023
• Alert Antiparasitic Wins FDA Approval for High-Risk Neuroblastoma The FDA approved eflornithine to treat this rare cancer in adult and pediatric patients. The drug has also been approved to reduce excessive facial hair growth and to treat sleeping sickness.
  Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2023
• New $1 Billion Plan for African Vaccine Manufacturing Up to $1 billion will be available to boost African vaccine manufacturing as part of a new scheme set up by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the global health organization said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, December 07, 2023
• Soaring Pollution in Lahore Fills Wards With Sick Children In the packed pediatric emergency room of a Lahore public hospital, parents holding sick children lined up for treatment this week, part of a surge of young patients caused by the air pollution crisis.
  Reuters Health Information, December 07, 2023
• COP28 Focus on Health Draws $777 Million to Fight Tropical Disease The UAE and several charities at the UN climate summit have offered $777 million in financing for eradicating neglected tropical diseases that are expected to worsen as temperatures climb.
  Reuters Health Information, December 03, 2023
• France on 'High' Alert for Bird Flu After New Cases Detected France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem the spread of the highly contagious virus.
  Reuters Health Information, December 05, 2023
• How the New Outbreak in China Is Hitting Clinics Elsewhere A rise in respiratory illnesses in China, clusters of pneumonia in children, and resistance to common antibiotics have specialists on alert looking for changes locally.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• Analysis Supports Link Between Psoriasis and OSA Several hypotheses may explain the connection, such as the presence of inflammatory mediators and nocturnal cytokine secretion, according to the authors.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• How Climate Change Is Making the World Sick Heat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. These are just a few of the ways that public health has been impacted and compounded by climate change - a focus for the first time at COP28.
  Reuters Health Information, December 03, 2023
• EMA Committee Recommends Label Update for Some Decongestants The European Medicines Agency's safety committee on Friday recommended changes to product information for all medicines that contain the ingredient pseudoephedrine to address safety concerns related to neurological and heart-related side effects.
  Reuters Health Information, December 01, 2023
• Smoking Alters Salivary Microbiota Changes in oral microbiota caused by cigarette smoking could contribute to development of chronic health conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2023
• Withholding Intubation Benefits Comatose Poisoning Patients A randomized French study reveals that withholding intubation significantly improves outcomes without compromising patient safety.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2023
• ASCO Details How to Manage Ongoing Cancer Drug Shortage The guidance also recommends counseling to help patients and providers who are struggling with 'psychological or moral distress' from ongoing shortages.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• AHA, AAP Update Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines The update addresses use of intact umbilical cord management in preterm, late preterm, and term newborns. It also lists optimal devices and interfaces to administer positive-pressure ventilation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Late-Life Increases in Pulmonary Pressure, Hypertension Age-related increases in pulmonary artery systolic pressure occur in concert with worsening left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and contribute to late-life dyspnea, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Alert FDA Clears Vivos Therapeutics' Oral Device for Sleep Apnea Vivos Therapeutics said on Wednesday the US health regulator has cleared its oral device for severe obstructive sleep apnea, leading a massive rally in the company's shares before the bell.
  Reuters Health Information, November 29, 2023
• TCT 2023 Transapical Valve Replacement Relieves Mitral Regurgitation Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Parental Stress and Depression Linked to Childhood Asthma Data from a national sample of Australian children showed worse asthma symptoms in the presence of family hardships, maternal depression, and other stressors.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• All-Oral Regimen Succeeds for Rifampin-Resistant TB A combination oral-only therapy of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid was significantly more effective than standard care in preventing unfavorable outcomes in patients with treatment-resistant tuberculosis.
  MDedge News, November 29, 2023
• New Tests May Finally Diagnose Long COVID Researchers have pinpointed a potential common link to the varying symptoms of long COVID and specific testing could solve the mystery.
  Medscape Medical News, November 29, 2023
• FDA Flags New Problem With Philips Machines, Shares Fall The FDA said it is alerting patients of a new safety issue with machines made by the group that are used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
  Reuters Health Information, November 28, 2023