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Demand for Health Care Workers Will Remain High Through Recession
October 28, 2009 12:07 PM by Vern Enge
Health care is expected to remain a bright spot in the current recessionary job market, according to several key indicators. This does not seem to mean, however, everything is rosy in health care overall today. Recession has done some serious damage to Read More...
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Asthmatic Children Neglecting Their Drugs
October 21, 2009 10:51 AM by Vern Enge
Respiratory therapists have their work cut out for them trying to convince their young asthma patients to take their prescribed asthma medications as ordered by the doctor. Compliance rates are dismal at less than a third of the patients overall. If ethnic Read More...
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Gene Variants Factor into Asthma Attacks
October 14, 2009 2:42 PM by Vern Enge
How often do therapists hear the phrase: "It's all in the genes"? It's used to explain everything from brainpower to muscle power and points in between. Now that same uttering might be used to apply to asthma attacks. British researchers are currently Read More...
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Heat, Humidity May Trigger Asthma
October 9, 2009 12:01 PM by Vern Enge
Therapists looking for discussion topics for young asthma patients and their parents might look at the results of a study published in the September edition of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Could atmospheric conditions play a part? That actually Read More...
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Finger Stick Test Checks Cholesterol Levels
October 7, 2009 10:50 AM by Vern Enge
Therapists may be able to forget the old blood-drawn cholesterol tests when looking for risks of some coronary heart diseases down the line. Probably many of you have had that test and waited days for test results. One new blood test, measuring the level Read More...
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Some New Thoughts on ARDS Treatments
October 1, 2009 10:28 AM by Vern Enge
Results of two recent studies may provide respiratory therapists with some flexibility in treating their acute respiratory distress syndrome patients, according to Timothy A. Mullen, RRT, in an article titled "Beyond ARDS Net: A Two-Study Review Shows Read More...
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Discovery May Yield New Asthma Therapy
August 14, 2009 2:12 PM by Vern Enge
Aldose reductase is not a term frequently bandied about in respiratory therapy departments today, but file that term in your brain, therapists, because current studies show aldose reductase inhibitors might significantly reduce allergic reactions that Read More...
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FDA Approves Diaphragm-Pacing Device
July 22, 2009 12:11 PM by Mike Bederka
Interesting developments for spinal cord injury patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Last month, the FDA approved the NeuRx DPS RA/4 Respiratory Stimulation System, an implantable electronic device that stimulates the diaphragm and allows some SCI Read More...
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It’s All in the Genes
March 26, 2009 4:01 PM by Frank Visco
Researchers at Wake Forest University have suggested genetics may explain why only 25% of long-term smokers develop chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases even though 90 percent of COPD is attributed to smoking. The study considered variations in the Read More...
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Practice Makes (More) Perfect
February 3, 2009 4:50 PM by Frank Visco
In the first overall assessment of the 79 licensed lung transplant centers in the U.S. and Canada, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that centers that perform at least 20 transplants per year have better mortality outcomes. The findings were presented Read More...
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NIH Shows the Money
January 30, 2009 12:32 PM by Frank Visco
The National Institute of Health (NIH), recently released statistics on the monetary support it made to various research, condition, and disease categories based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms in 2008. In all, 215 research/disease Read More...
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Face Masks: To Wear or Not to Wear?
January 30, 2009 12:00 PM by Frank Visco
Wearing a face mask may increase your chances of avoiding the flu by 400 percent, according to a recent Australian study. During the winters of 2006 and 2007, researchers at the University of New South Wales observed more than 280 adults from 143 families Read More...
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Patients; Doctors Weigh in On LABA Risk
December 11, 2008 11:20 AM by Kristen Ziegler
A panel of 30 medical and scientific Food and Drug Administration advisors plans to vote today on whether the safety risks posed by long acting beta agonists outweigh the benefits to respiratory patients. But professional and patient organizations across Read More...
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If You Can't Handle the Nanoparticles, Get Out of the Kitchen
November 21, 2008 10:14 AM by Colleen Mullarkey
Not looking forward to a long day of cooking this Turkey Day? Here's one more reason why you should get out of the kitchen. New research suggests that kitchen appliances may harm respiratory and cardiovascular health. Researchers at the National Institute Read More...
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Respiratory Rarities: Pets' Allergies Linked to Owner's
August 8, 2008 11:02 AM by Kristen Ziegler
Could Fido and Fifi be allergic to flowers too? Researchers from Germany's Medical University Lübeck say "Ja." They studied more than 4,200 people and their pets to determine whether environmental factors in a living space had similar effects on creatures Read More...
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