Respiratory

Health care costs in the United States for respiratory conditions have increased from 1996 to 2016, particularly for chronic conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.

Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, at Vanderbilt University, discusses how the nicotine metabolite ratio (NMR) can help inform doctors and patients on choosing the optimal treatment for quitting smoking.

Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, Vanderbilt University, discusses the nicotine metabolite ratio (NMR) is and how it's used to help identify vulnerable individuals for lung cancer and heart disease.

A Hispanic community health study is the first of its kind to evaluate the prevalence and determinants of e-cigarette use among Hispanic and Latino populations living in the United States.

This year’s most read articles on respiratory cover topics on long-term health effects of COVID-19, adolescent vaping, and more.

Leaders from Ochsner, Xavier, and their partners gathered on September 13, 2022, in New Orleans to offer an overview of the Healthy State initiative during a session of the Institute for Value-Based Medicine®.

Further understanding of effective incentives and disincentives is needed to ensure that evidence-based policy and guidelines regarding tobacco cessation are effectively translated into practice at the patient level.

This article describes the implementation of Medicaid smoking cessation guidance in a large, urban federally qualified health center to examine how state-level provisions translated into clinic-level policies.

Cough suppression therapy is a type of behavioral intervention, but like other behavioral interventions, it requires significant work on the part of the patient, meaning motivation, therapy attendance, and compliance with therapy techniques.

Julia Balmaceda, a medical student at the University of Kansas, discusses the findings of a research project looking at whether racial bias in pulse oximetry was present in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Amgen will buy Horizon Therapeutics for $27.8 billion as the largest health care merger of 2022; high levels of 3 respiratory illness incite reassessment of domestic indoor mask guidelines; Juul Labs is reported to pay $1.7 billion over 500 settlements that claim that e-cigarette addiction level is higher than advertised.

Increasing rates of marijuana consumption highlights a need for research on the effects of smoking marijuana on the lungs.

Teenage brains prematurely aged by 3 years during pandemic lockdowns; Washington state health officials report high flu activity and 7 deaths; medical groups ask a Texas judge to refrain from issuing a nationwide injunction against the preventive health screenings covered by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Nearly 40 million children missed their measles vaccine dose; health experts in the Biden administration are cautiously optimistic about a new campaign for COVID-19 boosters; about 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of having major surgery, according to a new study.

World Pneumonia Day is Saturday, November 12, and health organizations issued a call to action to do a better job of diagnosing, treating, and preventing the disease.

The report, from the CDC, said that more than 3 million youth, or almost 1 in 9, reported using tobacco this year, and that disparities persist among US middle and high school students, with the highest rates among those who struggle in school or who have severe severe psychological distress.

FDA advisers met to discuss alternatives to the infrared light used in pulse oximeters, which can be absorbed by melanin; FDA warns of a national shortage of tracheostomy tubes, especially for pediatric patients; 1 in 5 deaths among adults aged between 20 and 49 years is due to excessive drinking.

The study sought to examine the safety and tolerability of gefapixant in Japanese patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough.

A medical student at the University of Kansas discusses a research project she started in her first year of school—2020—looking at whether a racial bias in pulse oximetry was present in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.

Teva, the largest US supplier of Adderall, expects shortages to continue for the next 2-3 months; FDA expands use of Boostrix for immunization during the third trimester of pregnancy to prevent pertussis in infants; over the last 3 decades, Black women had a 40% higher breast cancer death rate compared with White women.

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation service in a group of patients admitted to a short-stay unit in the emergency department.

e-Cigarettes boasting fruity flavors and conveniently disposable devices are continuing to threaten US youth, agencies said.

With cold and flu season approaching, tips for avoiding the worst of the respiratory viruses are important for facing the coming months, when health experts expect an uptick in flu cases compared with the past 2 years.

There is wide variation in the governance over research participant pay, and with rapid advances in technology enabling trial access, industry should step up and pay patients what they are worth, says Gunnar Esiason, a patient advocate living with cystic fibrosis.