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As the Trump administration continues to gut federal health agencies, several professional health and advocacy groups ar | ...
The 17-year-old from Nevada said she was struggling to breathe before her diagnosis with bronchiolitis obliterans.
Inflammatory markers play a pivotal role in phenotyping asthma, assessing risks, and tailoring personalised therapeutic strategies, particularly in asthma associated with allergic sensitisation ...
Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic respiratory (lung) diseases that cause breathing difficulty and coughing. Asthma affects about ...
Silicosis is an incurable but entirely preventable lung disease. It has only one cause: breathing in too much silica dust. This is a risk in several ...
This is why diagnosing patients in the early stages – before irreversible lung damage occurs – is critical. However, this isn’t easy to achieve. Lung function testing and chest X-rays only identify ...
Asthma is a condition that makes breathing difficult due to swelling and tightening of the airways. It is caused by a combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, such as a family ...
A young mother who was 36 weeks pregnant when she suffered “irreversible brain damage” died as a result of a ruptured brain aneurysm, an inquest has heard. Saoirse McElvaney, a 26-year-old ...
The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached unprecedented levels in 2024, with some consequences expected to be irreversible for centuries, if not millennia, the World Meteorological ...
‘The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, with some of the consequences being irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years’, according to a new State of the ...
But do allergies affect all Australians equally? In a recent study, we looked at emergency department (ED) presentations related to asthma and other allergic diseases in central Queensland.