COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dise... News Headlines

• Combo Treatment Works Best for COPD
  WebMD - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:28 EST
  
• Combo Treatment Works Best for COPD
  WebMD - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Two Inhalers Are Better Than One For Common Lung Disease
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Cells In The Lung Clear The Air To Prevent Lung Damage
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Lung Function Decline In Smokers Slowed By Higher Physical Activity Level
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Cells In The Lung Clear The Air To Prevent Lung Damage
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Higher Physical Activity Level Slows Lung Function Decline In Smokers
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• COPD: Fourth Leading Cause Of Death In US
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Combination Therapy Reduces Exacerbations In Severe COPD
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Respiratory Research About To Experience Influx Of Talented Young Scientists, UK
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Use Of Corticosteroid Inhalers For The Treatment Of Asthma And COPD To Increase
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Exacerbations In Severe COPD Reduced By Combination Therapy
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Patients Helped To Breathe Easier With Helium
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Combination therapy reduces emphysema flare-ups
  Reuters - Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:28 EST
  
• Cough And Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase In COPD Incidence
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Landmark Study Shows Important Benefits Of Seretide™ Treatment For Patients With Fatal Lung Disease, COPD
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Increasingly Associated With Cardiovascular Disease - Journal SLEEP
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Increasingly Associated With Cardiovascular Disease
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Drawing Skills Linked To Mortality In Patients With COPD
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Journal Sleep: OSA Increasingly Associated With Cardiovascular Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Combo treatment cuts asthma attacks
  The Earth Times - Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:09 EST
  
• A screen for chronic kidney disease
  The Earth Times - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:08 EST
  
• Updated Lung Disease Guidelines Aim To Reduce World's Fourth Largest Killer
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Researchers Develop Simple Model And Questionnaire For Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Kidney Disease Up 16% in U.S.
  WebMD - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• CDC: Kidney Disease Up 16% in U.S.
  WebMD - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Greater Use Of Exercise Testing In Chronic Disease Recommended By Task Force
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Chronic Disease Management Quality Improvement Efforts Yield Better Care Delivery
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:00 EST
  
• InterMune Discontinues Phase 3 INSPIRE Trial Of Actimmune In Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Chronic Pain and Maintaining Intimacy
  WebMD - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Sleep apnea ups cardiovascular risk
  The Earth Times - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:27 EST
  
• NIH Gives PITT $13 Million Grant For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Research
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
  
• The Metabolic Response To Colitis Varies Depending Upon Whether Inflammation Is Chronic Or Acute
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis And Cancer
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Doctors Urged To Change The Way They Prescribe Pain Relievers For Chronic Pain
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• A Chronic Problem
  Washington Post - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Combo Treatment Works Best for COPD
  MedicineNet - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Genetic conditions often lead to insurance refusal
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:01 EST
  
• United Therapeutics Announces Pulmonary Hypertension Opinion Leaders' Guidance On Intravenous Therapies
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Cystic Fibrosis: An Incomplete Success Story
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Birth Weight, Gestation Period May Be Linked To Depression, Chronic Pain
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Stress-related Adult Disease May Originate In Fetal Development
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Investigational Clinical Study Of An Approved Drug In People With Chronic Pain Due To Osteoarthritis Of The Knee Or Hip - Men And Women Sought
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Single Genetic Defect Causes Early Heart Disease
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• SEBIVO(R) (Telbivudine) Approved In China As New Treatment Option For Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Unique Cell Population Involved In Granuloma Formation In The Intestine
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Single Genetic Defect Causes Early Heart Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Spinal Cord Stimulation Pilot Study For Chronic Angina
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Report Examines Use Of Health Care Funds By States Affected By Hurricane Katrina; Study Examines Chronic Disease Management;
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Self-management In Bronchiectasis
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Life-Saving Technology May Address Unique Needs Of Women In Heart Failure
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:00 EST
  
• American Heart Association Scientific Statement Recommends Doctors Change Approach
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:00 EST
  
• New Device Safeguards Against Medication Errors At Home
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Metabolic Disease Too Easily Missed
  ScienceDaily - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Breast Cancer Survivors Experience Long-term Heart Disease Risk From Radiotherapy
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• DVT Treatment Vacuums Away Blood Clots Prevents Disability
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Takeda And Tap To Promote Sucampo's Amitiza In The US For Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Drug does little to cut lung disease death rate
  Reuters - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:01 EST
  
• Drug Maker Stops Work on Lung Disease Medicine
  New York Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:52 EST
  
• Nonsurgical Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Treatment Vacuums Away Damaging Blood Clots And Restores Blood Flow In The Leg
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Key Protein For Hepatitis C Virus Entry Identified
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• New Clues to Chronic Dizziness
  WebMD - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:23 EST
  
• Heart Disease and Medication Safety
  WebMD - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Radiation for breast cancer ups heart disease risk
  Reuters - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:09 EST
  
• Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier In Women Than Men
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Drug-Enriched Salt Could Prevent Devastating Tropical Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Human Genome Sciences Initiates Phase 3 Clinical Trial Of Albuferon(R) With Ribavirin In Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Genotypes 2 And 3
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Pain meets politics in focus on chronic fatigue
  MSNBC - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:52 EST
  
• NIDA News Scan #49 - March 05, 2007 (PDF, 1.6 MB)
  National Institutes of Health - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:52 EST
  
• Hispanic Women At Higher Risk For Heart Disease
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Triptolide: A Potential Drug For Polycystic Kidney Disease
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Study measures harm of stress on children's health
  Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:19 EST
  
• Study Examines Genetic Risk Factors For Alzheimer's Disease
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Triptolide: A Potential Drug For Polycystic Kidney Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• NHLBI And CMS Launch Large Study Of Home Oxygen Therapy For COPD
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:00 EST
  
• Why Graves' Disease Attacks The Eyes: Study Uncovers Clues
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Unique Tomatoes Tops In Disease-Fighting Antioxidants
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Gum disease care heart aid hope
  BBC - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:26 EST
  
• Wider Use Of Home Oxygen Therapy Could Save Thousands Of Lives, Says RAND Study
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Clues To Why Graves' Disease Attacks The Eyes
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Rare Mutation Causes Early Heart Disease And Metabolic Syndrome
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Steroid Shots for Back Pain Don't Work
  WebMD - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• To Sleep, Perchance To Lose Your Edge?
  Washington Post - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• African-Americans at higher asthma risk
  The Earth Times - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:37 EST
  
• 'Hidden' Fat That Puts Adolescents At Risk For Disease Identified By MRI
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Study measures harm of stress on children's health
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:16 EST
  
• Mom's gum disease ups risk of premature birth
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:36 EST
  
• Nicotine: The Link Between Cigarette Smoking And Kidney Disease Progression?
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Bad air quality speeds HK elderly to hospital: study
  Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:34 EST
  
• SEBIVO(R) (telbivudine) Recommended For Approval In European Union As A New Treatment For Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Psychiatric And Neurologic Conditions May Underlie Many Cases Of Chronic Dizziness
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• TorreyPines Therapeutics Initiates Second Phase I Clinical Trial Of NGX426, A Potential Novel Oral Treatment For Chronic Pain Conditions
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Indiana University To Host Centennial Observation Of The First Alzheimer's Disease Patient
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Treat Gum Disease, Help Heart?
  WebMD - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:51 EST
  
• Treat Gum Disease, Help Heart?
  WebMD - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Gene defect in Iranian family may help understand heart disease: research
  The Earth Times - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:03 EST
  
• Task Force Recommends Against Use Of Aspirin And Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs To Prevent Colorectal Cancer
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Gene Glitch May Up Early Heart Disease
  WebMD - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Drugs Without Side Effects A Possibility For Alzheimer's
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Pharmacist-Driven Outreach Lowers Metabolic Syndrome Rates
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:00 EST