Entries for January 2018

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall of Vyaire's AirLife Humidification Chamber & Heated Breathing Circuit Kits due to manufacturing errors. Class I recalls are the FDA's most serious type of recalls. The FD...

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A new Congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine titled Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes has been released, and the results are mixed. David East, chairman of the committee that wrote ...

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Asthma is a chronic disease that affects the airways. Symptoms can be controlled with medication, however some people with asthma are less responsive to treatments. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are studying people with asthm...

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The National Institute of Health’s All of Us Research Program, an historic effort to gather data from at least a million volunteers nationwide, is seeking ideas for important research questions the program might address. This input will help th...

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The Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) respiratory health research advocates Kenneth Benson and John Linnell recently participated in the evaluation of research applications submitted to the PRMRP sponsored by the Department of Defense. B...

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Researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have identified genetic variations in the anatomy of the lungs that could offer insights into the risk of developing COPD. According to the study's first author, Benjamin Smith, MD...

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A new study that has just been published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation suggests that there is a need to improve the way COPD patients are evaluated for appropriate supplemental oxygen prescriptions prior to...

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