《睡眠專業人士雜誌》
星期四, 七月 23, 2026
Training with a counter-pressure steam breathing device has the potential to improve voice quality, as revealed in a recent pilot study in Finland. A report on the study was published in Journal of Voice, a peer-reviewed publication regarded as the world’s premier journal for voice medicine and research. The protocol […]
ALung Technologies, Inc. announced the recent initiation of commercial development of its next-generation artificial lung, which expands the Company’s focus on highly efficient gas exchange devices and also broadens its applicable market. The Company’s current product, the Hemolung® Respiratory Assist System (RAS), is the only fully comprehensive extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal […]
A UK study of patients participating in low-dose CT lung cancer screening highlights the importance of spirometry in the assessment of possible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and demonstrates that over-reliance on radiological changes alone may result in detection of clinically insignificant disease. The new study is published online in the Annals of […]
Once-daily treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an inhaler combining fluticasone furoate (FF), umeclidinium (UMEC) and vilanterol (VI) reduced all-cause mortality by 42 percent, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In “Reduction in All-Cause Mortality […]
The Pulmonary Wellness Foundation (PWF) has announced the worldwide availability of a free pulmonary wellness and rehabilitation program for people suffering from respiratory disease in the U.S. and around the world. Lung disease patients are at increased risk of COVID-19, flu, pneumonia and other communicable respiratory illnesses according to the Centers […]
Traditional stoves that burn biomass materials and are not properly ventilated, which are widely used in developing nations where cooking is done indoors, have been shown to significantly increase indoor levels of harmful PM2.5 (minuscule atmospheric particulates) and carbon monoxide (CO) and to stimulate biological processes that cause lung inflammation and […]
Itamar Medical Ltd. today announced publication of results of the COMPASS study validating scoring guidelines that better enable physicians and respiratory technologists to review, verify and interpret WatchPAT automated scoring. The study also found that the use of those guidelines is reliable and improves agreement between WatchPAT and gold standard […]
ResMed and ATS Foundation have awarded their third $100,000 Research Fellowship grant to Claude Farah, PhD, of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, to study how remote monitoring can help improve the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. The aim of Farah’s study […]
The number of people newly infected each year and the number of people living with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease appears to be increasing, especially among women and those 65 and older, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. In “Incidence and Prevalence of Nontuberculous […]
Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to findings in “Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction,” new research published in the American Thoracic Society’s journal, Annals of the American Thoracic Society. The study by the Environmental Committee of the Forum […]
