News & Updates

Mild-to-moderate COVID-19 during pregnancy does not appear to affect the foetal brain, according to a prospective study presented at RSNA 2021.

Extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R) devices significantly improve pH and carbon dioxide arterial pressure (PaCO2) in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (ae-COPD) who had previously failed noninvasive ventilation (NIV), according to a recent study.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients frequently develop physical frailty, which provides prognostic information, a study has found.

Childhood respiratory disease, maltreatment, maternal smoking, and low birth weight are all associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood, a study has found.

In a cohort of veterans with COVID-19, former smokers are at higher risk of 30-day mortality compared with current smokers and nonsmokers, as reported in a study.

Adding interferon beta-1a to remdesivir did not hasten time to recovery among adults hospitalized with COVID-19, according to results of the phase III ACTT*-3 trial.

Among patients with systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD), radiographic progression of ILD over time is predictive of elevated long-term mortality, as shown in a study.

A large prospective, observational study has suggested that while individuals with a history of high-risk allergy may have an increased risk of allergic reactions following receipt of a messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine, they are still able to receive both vaccine doses.