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Lung Damage Continues Even After Smokers Quit

...comes from an international team of researchers in respiratory medicine including New Zealand Massey University clinical pharmacology lecturer Felix Ram. "The study has wide implications for how we manage patients with smoking related lung disease and for all smokers at large," said Ram. "Instead of telling ...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...ing pools. Professor Peter van Asperen, head of respiratory medicine at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, A...y be potential for chemicals to affect the risk of respiratory diseases but the message for Australians is there is much more risk from indoor pools than outdoor p...

13 Million Die Worldwide Due to Unhealthy Environment: New WHO Report

...cent of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. Low-income countries suffer the mos...dren away from smoke) could have a major impact on respiratory infections and diseases among women and children....

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...ldren suffer diseases such as measles, malaria and respiratory infections, diseases that can largely be averted and prevented," Abdullah told the OIC's inaugural health conference. "In western countries, killer diseases like polio are considered to have long been eradicated.In contrast, the polio virus continues...

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...ld make up 74 per cent of deaths from diarrhea and respiratory infections, the WHO said. The report also highlights that more developed countries are not immune to environmental health risks. Thirty-seven children die each day of water-related diarrhea in Europe, mostly in eastern and central parts of the ...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Heath Threat

...of diseases like pneumonia in children and chronic respiratory problems in adults Tobacco smoke is a major pollutant. Passive smoking causes burning eyes, nose, and throat irritation, bronchitis, severe asthma, decrease in lung function and even cancer in children and adult alike. Solutions are available, and ...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

...once because of infection. The most common were respiratory infections, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, ear infection and gastroenteritis, according to the study published in the Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal . Dr Deborah Lehmann, who heads the institute's infectious diseases unit, said the results supp...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

...des. Asthma is perhaps the most commonly discussed respiratory disease after the common cold. The word asthma is ...ing at ways of fitting asthma into the spectrum of respiratory diseases and evolving simple strategies for its management at the primary-care level without much in...

Tiny Lives Snuffed Out Due To Bad Plumbing

...s commonly found in soil and water and attacks the respiratory system. It is known to cause pneumonia and blood infections, especially in humans with weakened immune systems. After the first baby died in 2004, the hospital disinfected the crowded ward and searched for the source of the bacterium but over the n...

Key Found to Kill Cystic Fibrosis Superbug

...clogged with thick mucus, often leading to chronic respiratory infections. The team of researchers has identified a weakness in the armour that protects the B. cenocepacia bacterium from the effects of antibiotics. They hypothesize that preventing the synthesis of a key sugar required for this armour, 4-amino-...

Breast Fed Children also Likely to Gain Weight on Adulthood

...east fed are less likely to develop ear infection, respiratory illness and diarrhea early in life. IN/V...

School Teen’s Sudden Death Linked To Bacterial Meningiti

..., sleeplessness, and sensitivity to bright lights, respiratory infection. They also include a reddish-purple bruise-like rash. The meningococcal bacteria can be spread by direct contact with the saliva of an infected person, through kissing or the sharing of food, drinks, water bottles, cigarettes or mouthpie...

Execution by Lethal Injection Questioned

...d to produce unconsciousness and then death due to respiratory and cardiac arrest. The study has found that the drug is not working as intended. The anesthesia was insufficient to reduce suffering. In many cases the fated is still found to be breathing even after being administered the drug to stop breathing o...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...ren born with cystic fibrosis suffer digestion and respiratory problems and tend to die early. Both these conditions are caused by so-called "nonsense mutations" in the child's DNA meaning that the sufferer lacks a vital protein. Accordingly, in most genetic conditions, between 5-15 per cent of cases are caused...

Qigong Help Chronically Ill People to Cope With Anxiety and Discrimination

...this very popular therapy when SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – hit Hong Kong" explains lead author Judy Yuen-man Siu, who carried out the research in the Department of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Chronically ill people, like the ones in our study, were particularly at risk ...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

... with the times when influenza epidemics and acute respiratory disease (ARD), which often accompanies flu, were at their height. They found that the chances of dying from AMI increased by a third in epidemic weeks, compared to non-epidemic weeks, and the chances of dying from IHD increased by a tenth. This was t...

Doctors in UK Promoting Awareness of Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

...ecause the refluxed fluid irritates the larynx and respiratory tract. · Excess belching is common. · Symptoms typically occur after eating a large or fatty meal or drinking alcohol. · Lying down, bending over or bending and lifting can all cause reflux. · It is made worse by smoking. · Reflux symptoms may h...

Habitual Consumption of Alcohol Linked With Sleep-related Breathing Disorder in Men

...be more resistant than men to threats to nocturnal respiratory stability. Such protection may be due to hormonally-mediated increased ventilatory drive, anatomical differences or other characteristics that may provide general protection for women from events of an SRBD, noted Peppard, adding that women, for exam...

April Showers Bring May Flowers – And Plenty of Pollen, To

...face or throat tissues, skin irritations, and even respiratory problems and asthma. However, just because you might be sensitive to pollen, it does not mean you have to avoid those spring flowers that are appearing on every corner; colorful or fragrant flowering plants rarely cause allergy because their pollen...

Women Struck By Smoking Diseases

Anti-smoking campaigns highlighting the risk of respiratory conditions should be directed specifically at women, according to a new study published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. // Professor Robert Adams of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, and colleagues, examined hospital admissions ...

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