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Sleep apnea is a condition in which people experience pauses in breathing during sleep. As much as 25 percent of men and 10 percent of women in the United States have the condition, Memtsoudis said. Recent studies show people with sleep apnea are at ...
Better guidance urgently needed for 'epidemic' of sleep apnea in surgical patients
UCSF News Services
UCSF News Services
A research team led by UC San Francisco scientists has found that exposure in infancy to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a component of motor vehicle air pollution, is strongly linked with later development of childhood asthma among African Americans and Latinos.
The Daily Star
U.S. News & World Report
WEDNESDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- The new respiratory virus responsible for an ongoing outbreak in the Middle East poses a serious risk to hospitals because it is easily transmitted in health care facilities, according to a new study. A team of ...
New respiratory virus worse than SARS
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Virus Investigation Reported by ...
French patient dies of new, SARS-related respiratory virus
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Company scientists want to see whether these "lungs on a chip" can help them better understand the biology behind asthma and identify promising candidates for medicines, says Don Nicholson, who oversees Merck's respiratory drug research. If efforts ...
Syracuse.com
This undated electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows a novel coronavirus particle, also known as the MERS virus, center. The mysterious new respiratory ...
Jakarta Post
Jakarta Post
Thick haze blanketing Bengkalis regency and Dumai City in Riau over the last few days has increased the number of respiratory infections. In Bengkalis, the number of people suffering from respiratory infections reached 531 as of June 17, jumping from ...
Dumai airport cancels two flights due to haze
The Independent
The medical trial began in 2003, when a dozen researchers at Imperial College London began trialling a new drug on 38 asthma sufferers at St Mary's Hospital, London, where Dr Edward Erin worked as a chest consultant. ... Working alongside him was ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
LONDON » A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported today after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what ...
Los Angeles Times
Researchers are also studying whether the pollutants actually cause childhood asthma. "This work adds to the growing body of evidence that traffic-related pollutants may be causally related to childhood asthma," said Esteban G. Burchard, a UCSF ...
Chicago Tribune
On Monday morning, Italia and a handful of other students from Hedges Elementary School who have asthma grabbed a wrench and tightened the bolts on three custom-designed "no-idling" signs, posted on school property along Winchester Avenue and 48th ...
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