Aug 26, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Xenleta (lefamulin) has been approved to treat adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today. D...

Aug 23, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Children with mild asthma can use inhalers as needed, according to a study published online July 30 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Prac...

Aug 22, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Overall tuberculosis rates are low among children and adolescents and are declining steadily, according to a study published online Aug. 21 in The Lancet Pu...

Aug 21, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking is associated with reduced rates of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) within five years compared with current smoking, although the ri...

Aug 21, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Chronic exposure to high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) is associated with an increased risk for age-related macular degeneratio...

Aug 21, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Among former smokers, the prevalence of depression and substance use has increased over time, according to a study published online Aug. 20 in the American...

Aug 20, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In healthy nonsmokers, inhaling nicotine-free electronic cigarette aerosol has a transient impact on endothelial function, according to a study published onl...

Aug 20, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Environmental pollution appears to be associated with an increased risk for psychiatric disorders, especially bipolar disorder and major depression, accordin...

Aug 16, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Four cases of severe lung injury possibly linked with vaping in Minnesota are similar to dozens of cases in Wisconsin and Illinois. The patients had symptoms ...

Aug 16, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially ozone (O3), is significantly associated with worsening emphysema, according to a study published in t...

Aug 15, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A vaping industry group has launched legal action to delay the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's upcoming review of electronic cigarettes. In the lawsuit...

Aug 15, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than one-third of U.S. nonsmoking youth are exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) from tobacco, according to an August data brief published by the U.S. Cen...

Aug 12, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deep natural language processing may be able to estimate the presence of active cancer, cancer worsening or progression, and cancer improvement or response fr...

Aug 09, 2019

FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers and nonsmokers with ulcerative colitis (UC) have similar outcomes, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeu...

Aug 08, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There have been 118 more reports of electronic cigarette users suffering seizures since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first warned the public about t...

Aug 08, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- About two-thirds of patients who survive hospitalization for sepsis have persistent elevation of inflammation and immunosuppression biomarkers, which is link...

Aug 07, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In an official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline, published in the Aug. 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...

Aug 05, 2019

MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Possible vaping-related breathing problems have led to the hospitalization of 14 teens and young adults in two states. There were 11 cases of severe breathing ...

Aug 01, 2019

THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Worldwide, asthma patients report that work time is adversely affected by their condition, despite the use of long-term maintenance medication, according to ...

Jul 31, 2019

WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), the rates of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) persistence after pulmonary emboliz...