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• City proclaims and honors many

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 518
  The San Marcos High School tennis champions are honored, COPD Awareness week proclaimed, a generous donation is recognized and a Youth Advocate of the month is honored.
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• Emphysema

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 134
  Definition:- Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involving damage to the air sacs ( alveoli ) in the lungs. As a result, your body does not get the oxygen it needs. Emphysema makes it hard to catch your breath. You may also have a chronic cough and have trouble breathing during ...
  4 days ago

• Chronic asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways

  
  Asthma treatment — Authority: 115
  http://www.healasthma.com Not everyone with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease suffers from chronic asthma , but many individuals who experience emphysema or chronic bronchitis have asthma -like symptoms . Medical experts continue to debate whether chronic asthma should be classified as chronic ...
  1 week ago

• H1N1 - What Asthma and COPD Sufferers Need to Know

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  People who suffer from asthma or COPD ( chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ) are at higher risk of severe H1N1 symptoms or complications. This is because, unlike the normal flu which usually stays in the upper respiratory tract, the H1N1 flu has been shown to affect the entire respiratory system. It infects the ...
  1 week ago

• Survey: Awareness of COPD is rising, but understanding is still low

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  Awareness of COPD -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- continues to grow in the United States, according to national survey results released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst
  1 week ago

• Jaipur fire: Blaze slowly abating, area around site to open for nearby factory owners

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Jaipur, Nov 2(ANI): The fire at the Indian Oil depot in Jaipur, which started on October 29, is slowly abating and the area around 700-800 meters away from the site will be open for the factory owners to assess losses, District Magistrate of Jaipur Kuldeep Ranka said on Monday. “Fire in four tankers of Indian [...]
  1 week ago

• Pulmatrix Scores $30M To Block All Sorts of Bugs That Make People Sick in the Lungs

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 710
  Biotech , VC , deals Luke Timmerman wrote: Pulmatrix , the Lexington, MA-based company working to stop infectious bugs from being absorbed into the lungs, has raised $30.2 million in a Series B venture round to advance its unorthodox method for treating and preventing respiratory diseases like flu, the ...
  1 week ago

• Is Smoking Tougher on Women?

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  SUNDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women may be more vulnerable than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette smoke, a growing body of research suggests. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Ciggie smoke ‘weakens lungs’ natural defense against harmful pathogen’ (re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Oct 25 (ANI): Exposure to cigarette smoke might weaken immune cells’ ability to remove bacterial infections from the lungs, specifically nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI), a pathogen often associated with respiratory infections and the progression of respiratory disease, says a new study.NTHI has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sebelius Releases New Report on Benefits of Health Insurance Reform for Women with Breast Cancer

  
  Insurance Top News — Authority: 106
  As Americans mark breast cancer awareness month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report, Health Insurance Reform and Breast Cancer: Making the Health Care System Work for Women. The report details how health insurance reform will help women diagnosed with breast cancer and ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Superobesity,’ chronic disease burden can lead to death after bariatric surgery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): A new American study suggests that the ’superobese’ veterans and those with more chronic disease burden may die within a year of undergoing bariatric surgery.The study conducted by David Arterburn, M.D., M.P.H., of Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, and his team has been published ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prolonged use of a macrolide antibiotic minimize COPD exacerbations under a cloud

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 140
  According to a London-based study, prolonged usage of a macrolide antibiotic could possible minimize exacerbations in patients with moderate to severe COPD ( chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ) by as much as 35 percent. It was found that there is a significant effect of low-dose macrolide therapy , ...
  8 weeks ago

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