Veterans fail to react to COPD exacerbations
A study of US Veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has found that while the condition often significantly impairs their day-to-day life, a sizable proportion fail to take action when they experience an exacerbation of symptoms. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 11, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Vitamin supplementation unnecessary before pemetrexed
The duration of vitamin supplementation before the first dose of pemetrexed does not appear to influence the risk for treatment toxicity in lung cancer patients, a study has found. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 10, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
PNA clamping outperforms standard EGFR mutation detection
Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations can be reliably detected in a range of lung cancer samples using peptic nucleic acid clamping, South Korean researchers report. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 10, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Immunocytochemistry ‘highly accurate’ for ALK detection
Immunocytochemistry is highly accurate for detecting anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangements in non-small-cell lung cancers, a study by Swiss researchers has found. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 10, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Cesarean–asthma link shunned
Researchers have found that a previously reported association between birth by cesarean section and risk for asthma may be largely due to confounding by familial factors. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 10, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Flu activity is COPD misfortune teller
US researchers say that influenza prevalence can be used to anticipate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admissions and help to reduce the national burden of hospitalizations. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 9, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Deprived patients carry winter COPD admission burden
Interventions to reduce winter hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease should be targeted at the most economically deprived patients, say researchers who found that this group is disproportionally affected by the seasonal impact of the disease. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 8, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Call for palliative care awareness in COPD
Researchers in Belgium say that more must be done to make both physicians and patients aware that palliative care is an option for patients with COPD. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 5, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Complex interventions reduce COPD urgent care use
The authors of a systematic review say that the use of multicomponent, or complex, interventions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease could help reduce healthcare costs, after they found that the approach significantly reduced urgent care use. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 4, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Biomarker offers new understanding of COPD–asthma overlap
Researchers have identified a sputum biomarker that could distinguish patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease–asthma overlap syndrome from those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease alone. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 3, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Surrogate markers aid lung cancer trials
Research suggests that surrogate markers for overall survival are acceptable endpoints for clinical trials of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with lung cancer. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 3, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Ubiquitin enzymes show lung cancer treatment promise
Deubiquitinating enzymes offer a novel target for the treatment of lung cancer through the receptor tyrosine kinase signaling pathway, scientists say. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 3, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Gene mutation clustering limited in NSCLC
Gene mutations in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer show some clustering by ethnicity and histology but are not exclusive to patient subgroups, indicates research by an international team. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 2, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Pre-op chemo timing no advantage in resectable NSCLC
The timing of chemotherapy in relation to surgery does not appear to influence survival in patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer, a randomized trial has found. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 2, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
House dampness linked to pediatric wheeze worldwide
Results from an international study confirm that damp housing conditions are significantly associated with past and current wheeze in children. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - July 1, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
