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COPD Mortality: Muscular Atrophy Is a Significant Risk Factor
In COPD, muscular atrophy is a significant risk factor for death and may prolong patients’ hospital length of stay.
Pope Francis has double pneumonia, complicating his treatment, Vatican says
Pope Francis has the onset of double pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday, complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff and indicating a further deterioration in his fragile health.
Pope Francis slept peacefully, ate breakfast following diagnosis of pneumonia in both lungs
Pope Francis, 88, slept well and ate breakfast on Wednesday morning after he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, ...
Nature10d
The etiology and management of intractable breathlessness in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review of pharmacological therapy
Optimum management involves pharmacological treatment (principally opioids ... heliox versus oxygen-enriched air in 12 patients with lung cancer and dyspnea on exertion. 82 Heliox 28 (72% helium ...
Pope Francis’ medical condition: What to know about bilateral pneumonia
Following Pope Francis’ diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia, respiratory doctors are speaking about the condition. The Vatican ...
Vatican says Pope Francis has pneumonia
Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, according to the Vatican, which said the 88-year-old pontiff’s medical conditions present a “complex picture.”  “The laboratory tests, ...
Research finds a common ingredient found in cough syrups can treat Pulmonary Fibrosis
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have found that dextromethorphan, a common cough syrup ingredient, can potentially treat pu ...
Medscape29d
The Management of Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
The management of COPD includes pharmacologic therapy, which may employ new drug categories and new drugs of old categories, but also many nonpharmacologic strategies (pulmonary rehabilitation [PR ...
Medscape19d
Pharmacologic Treatments for Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension (PH ... were developed to treat PAH. Thus, limited treatment data exist for the less-studied non-PAH forms of PH. Pharmacogenomics can be a tool to better understand ...
The Sun16d
Vatican reveals Pope has ‘pneumonia in both lungs’ as events cancelled and fears grow over Pontiff’s health situation
Gemelli', demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia that required further pharmacological therapy ... He had part of one lung removed after a pulmonary infection as a young man, making ...
Al Jazeera English16d
Pope Francis has pneumonia in both lungs, Vatican says
“[A] chest CAT scan which the Holy Father received this afternoon … showed the onset of bilateral pneumonia that requires further pharmacological therapy,” it added. The pope ...
What the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, MS is saying about hospitalization of Pope Francis
Mississippi's Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson is the largest diocese in Mississippi by area. It covers the northern and central parts of the state and is the largest diocese, by area, east of the ...