Sentences with phrase «at lung health»

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«We don't have a specific list of conditions that would be disqualifying, but certainly uncontrolled medical problems (whether it's hypertension or heart disease or lung disease, or many other conditions), would most likely cause concern and result in disqualification,» Dr. Tarah Castleberry, an assistant professor of aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, told Reuters Health by email.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

As a result, the baby is born prematurely and at risk for a range of health problems such as immature, underdeveloped lungs, difficulty in the regulation of body temperature, impaired feeding, and impacted weight gain.

If at all possible, parents of premature or very young infants and parents of children with a health condition that affects the lungs, heart, or immune system should keep their children away from child care centers during the peak of RSV season.

People living in a cold home are at higher risk of lung conditions, heart attack, stroke and mental health problems.

Michael Twery is the director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Division of Lung Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will appear online on March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the 2018 Joint Congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO) in Orlando, Florida.

A special receptor on cells that line the sinuses, throat and lungs evolved to protect mammals from developing a range of allergies and asthma, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

Researchers are now finding that more than the lungs are at risk, as dirty air may in fact be an accomplice to some of the greatest threats to public health, including diabetes, obesity and even dementia.

«Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths [after lung cancer] in the United States and is an enormous health problem around the world,» said the study's lead author, Robert J. Mayer, MD, faculty vice president for academic affairs, medical oncologist and colorectal cancer researcher at Dana - Farber.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

The reviewer is at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study who were 54 or older and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease or stroke.

Of those born at the edge of viability, at 23 weeks of gestation, up to about 70 percent die; many of the survivors have lung and other health problems partly caused by efforts to keep them alive.

Researchers at the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research in Hobart have found that in Tasmania between 1983 and 1992, there were almost twice as many lung cancer cases among women aged between 25 and 44 years as in men of the same age.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

«Results also identified mechanisms regulating the numbers and phenotype of macrophages in the tiny air sacs of the lungs (called alveoli) in health and disease,» said Takuji Suzuki, MD, PhD, the study's first author and a scientist in the Division of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

Principal Investigator John Morris, MD, clinical co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnosis Program for the CCC, co-leader of the UC Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Lung Cancer Program, professor in the division of hematology oncology at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health medical oncologist, says a number of antitumor vaccines have shown promise for causing immune responses against tumor antigens to improve patient outcomes.

Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) accelerate the loss of lung function especially among patients with mild disease, according to researchers at National Jewish Health and other institutions.

In 2010, Dr. Taraska became an Investigator at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

«The prevalence of comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger,» said K.M. Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

In a press release, Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific adviser for the American Lung Association, said, «Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.»

Yves Longtin, M.D., of the Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Canada, reports on the effects of the intervention to reduce the incidence of health care - associated CDI (HA - CDI) at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec City, Canada.

«When we looked at data for the people who had never smoked, we also found evidence that having severe periodontal disease was related to an increased risk of lung cancer and colorectal cancer,» said Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

This study was presented at the Featured Clinical Research Session I: Two - year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: A Randomized Clinical Trial from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network The Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation trial was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01 HL088942) funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

The four - year study involved 461 patients at 24 medical oncology clinics at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network (UHN) with advanced lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, breast and gynecologic cancers.

Three decades later, about 56,000 Iranians are coping with lingering health effects from the blistering agent, ranging from skin lesions and failing corneas to chronic obstructive lung disease and possibly cancer, says Tooba Ghazanfari, an immunologist at Shahed University here.

Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung, patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of patients.

«At the moment we typically need to wait for a cystic fibrosis treatment to have an effect on lung health, measured by either a lung CT scan or breath measurement, to see how effective that treatment is,» Dr Morgan said.

«This long - term chronic disease can be developed in different ways, so achieving normal growth in lung function in early adulthood is an important factor in terms of future risk,» says Peter Lange, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Hvidovre Hospital and professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

They announced that they had used exome sequencing to identify people with cystic fibrosis who are at high risk of infection with the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa — associated with worse lung health and survival (Nature Genetics, DOI: 10.1038 / ng.2344).

Dr Anna Hansell, lead author of the study, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial, said: «Air pollution has well established impacts on health, especially on heart and lung diHealth at Imperial, said: «Air pollution has well established impacts on health, especially on heart and lung dihealth, especially on heart and lung disease.

The researchers found that the addition of vitamin D3 to ciclesonide did not significantly reduce the rate of first treatment failure (a composite outcome of decline in lung function and increases in use of beta - agonists, systemic steroids, and health care utilization) compared with placebo; 28 percent and 29 percent of participants in each group, respectively, experienced at least 1 treatment failure during 28 weeks.

A newly NIH funded clinical trial (NCT02528942) by University of Colorado Cancer Center investigators and collaborators at Beaumont Health in Michigan and the University of Texas Medical Branch is evaluating a new method for pinpointing and sparing healthy lung tissue during lung cancer radiotherapy.

A lung is thus a more complicated organ in some ways than the kidney or the heart, says Richard Castriotta of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

The team, lead by Professor Lester Kobzik at the Harvard University School of Public Health, introduced Streptococcus pneumoniae into the lungs of mice to mimic the inhalation of bacteria that occurs naturally as we breathe.

«The impact of chronic smoking on the lungs and the individual is substantially underestimated when using lung - function tests alone,» said James D. Crapo, professor of medicine at National Jewish Health and senior author of the study, which is being published June 22, in JAMA Internal Medicine.

It is the leading cause of death for children under the age of five, and babies who survive are at much higher risk of developing a number of health conditions including chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

A549 (human lung adenocarcinoma) and BSC - 1 (African green monkey kidney epithelial) cell lines as well as PMK (primary rhesus monkey kidney) cells are routinely maintained at the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory (VRDL) branch of the California Department of Public Health.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, along with the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, and Marshfield Clinic Health System in Wisconsin, have received a five - year, $ 15.5 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to improve lung cancer screening.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Cancer Institute and Wyeth - Ayerst Research Laboratories funded the study, which involved researchers at nine institutions and 15 WHI clinical - study sites nationwide.

To improve asthma care across Rhode Island and beyond, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded $ 8 million for a new center led by two Rhode Island Hospital - based professors at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute.

Though scientists understand the primary jobs of blood's contents, they're learning that a variety of cells work together in complicated ways, says Donna DiMichele, deputy director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health located outside Washington, D.C. Blood cells and even blood vessels respond to situations within the body by releasing a range of chemicals.

She was also selected to present her research at «Sleep and Circadian Biology Data Blitz», organized by the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research and the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Now a team at Harvard has designed a device that smokes cigarettes and sends the smoke through a human lung small airway - on - a-chip to examine just how the habit damages health.

Similar observations were noted at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the UK, where different morphotypes were observed from lung samples in mice infected with Bps K96243.

«Preterm babies in the NICU have a lot of health challenges due to the immaturity of their lungs, of their bowel and of all their organs, so we decided to look at how electrical grounding could help improve vagal tone and mitigate some of those challenges,» said Dr. Charles Palmer, professor of pediatrics and chief of newborn medicine at Penn State Children's Hospital.

Prior to joining Gladstone at its inception in 1979, Dr. Bersot served as Chief Resident of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.