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• Friday’s COPD Newsletter From COPD Support, Inc.

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Volume 10, Issue 06January 8, 2010Joan Costello, EditorBACK TO BASICS - PULMONARY REHABBy Michael Gibbons. An analysis of how CMA plans to implement pulmonary rehabilitation coverage. It is a move in the right direction - just not far enough. That is one early reaction as the dust settles on the long-awaited edict by ...
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• Shorter get more lung disease

  
  Euronews 24 | Latest News — Authority: 183
  People who develop chronic lung disease are more likely to be shorter in height than the general population, researchers say.The University of Nottingham team looked at more than one million people aged over 35 for their study.They say those with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) were 1.12cm shorter on ...
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• Forest And Almirall Announce Positive Results From The ACCORD COPD I Phase III Study Of Aclidinium Bromide In Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 697
  Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Almirall, S.A. (ALM.MC) today announced positive top-line results from ACCORD COPD I, a three-month Phase III study comparing aclidinium 200µg and 400µg BID versus placebo. Aclidinium bromide produced statistically significant (p Aclidinium was well tolerated in this ...
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• Leading COPD Drug May Raise Chances of Heart Trouble

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 467
  THURSDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that the drug ipratropium bromide (Atrovent), used widely among patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), may raise the risk of heart attack and heart failure , while a separate study of the COPD drug tiotropium (Spiriva) shows it ...
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• The signs of COPD related anxiety, depression

  
  Respiratory Therapy Cave — Authority: 127
  As I discussed in a recent post, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is commonly and normally and understandably associated with anxiety and depression. The best way to help these patients is to be vigilant to the signs of anxiety and depression so help can be sought. Therefore, it is important for us RTs to ...
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• Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good Morning

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 540
  Another cold day here on the Pharmalot Corporate Campus. Of course, we keep warm with several cups of stimulation and it’s never too early to indulge. This also girds for getting the short people off to school and hones our instincts for finding interesting items. And so here are a few to help you along. Stay warm, ...
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• Ipratropium Bromide May Increase Risk For Cardiovascular Events

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 697
  Patients taking ipratropium bromide, an anticholinergic used in the treatment of COPD, may be at an increased risk for cardiovascular events (CVE), including heart failure. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and Hines VA Hospital in Hines, IL, conducted a cohort study on 82,717 US veterans ...
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• AHRQ Effective Health Care Program Posts Two Studies on the Treatment of COPD

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Outcomes Associated with Tiotropium Use in Patients with COPD measures the safety and effectiveness of the use of tiotropium (a medication sold as Spiriva that opens air passages to the lungs) when taken with inhaled corticosteroids (used to regulate inflammation), and long-acting beta-agonists (used to relax ...
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• Frigid Temperatures Bring Health Risks

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  When the temperature drops, staying safe and warm and performing everyday activities can be challenging and dangerous. Young children, older adults, and the chronically ill are most at risk of having cold-related health problems.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges people affected by the ongoing cold ...
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• Predictors Of Health Decline In Older Adults With Pneumonia

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  findings from the Community Acquired Pneumonia Impact StudyThe most important predictors of a health decline (of older adults with pneumonia) included: two symptoms (no energy; diaphoresis), two lifestyle variables (being very active; allowing people to smoke in their home), one quality of life variable (little ...
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• Exercise For Enthusiastic Beginners !

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Another inspirational post provided by my exercise hero - EFFORTS Vice President, Ann Lornie.Thanks, Ann!I promise you I am not trying to ruin your New Year! I am doing everything I can to encourage you to get the best out of 2010. I want us all to be amazed and surprised that by Easter we [...]
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• Tc1 cells have a detrimental role and Tc2 cells have a protective role in COPD disease progression

  
  Allergy Notes — Authority: 124
  Tc1 cells are a subpopulation of CD8(+) cytotoxic T-cells characterized by a specific pattern of secreted factors. Like Th1 cells, Tc1 cells secrete IFN-gamma but no IL4, which distinguishes them from another subpopulation, Tc2 cells. Tc2 cells are a subpopulation of CD8(+) cytotoxic T-cells. Like Th2 cells, Tc2 ...
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• The Monday, January 4th Edition Of The COPD International Newsletter Is Now Available Online

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Volume #9 — Issue #1Susie Bowers, EditorDedicated to the philosophy“You can learn to control this disease instead of letting it control you!”IN THIS ISSUE ==> Welcome==> COPD News==> New Hope==> Recalls/Warnings==> Featured Articles - Respiratory Therapy, Sleep Medicine 2010==> ...
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• Strike a Chord for Health - Music Matters for Body and Mind

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  from the January issue of the NIH News In Health -(and one more reason to thank EFFORTS Ann Lornie for her COPD Tunes!)Music can lift you up. It can bring tears to your eyes. It can help you relax or make you get up and dance. You probably hear it several times a day—on the [...]
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• Tuesday’s COPD Tune

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Tuesday’s COPD Tunes come to us from the creative efforts of EFFORTS Vice President, Ann Lornie. This week thanks also go to Dr. Hook for some great music and great memories!When your body’s had enough of ‘E’And it’s layin’ flat out on the floorWhen you think you’ve done ’bout all you canWe’re gonna ...
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• News briefs from the January issue of Chest

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 574
  SMALL, THIN CHILDREN MAY HAVE POORER LUNG FUNCTION
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• Advanced Lung Cancer in Women and COPD in Men

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 639
  Cigarette smokers are not only fatally threatened by lung cancer but also by COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), shows new European study. Most new smokers are the young people and the women.
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• EFFORTS Emphysema Foundation Winter Newsletter Now Available

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  A message from Linda Watson, President of EFFORTS :Joan Esposito has given us another wonderful winter newsletter to get the New Year off to a good start!Read the newsletter - click here - http://www.emphysema.net/Newsletters.htmlThank you Joan and thank you Mike MacDonald for getting it online for us. Our old ...
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• Welcome to 2010 - The Year Of The Lung

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  WHAT IS AND WHY DECLARE 2010:THE YEAR OF THE LUNGRead the full text of2010 Year of the Lung Declaration - Click HereYou can find information about lung health for patients on different websites.Below is a list of sites which have been checked for scientific accuracy and unbiased information by the FIRS organisers of ...
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• Friday’s COPD Newsletter From COPD Support, Inc.

  
  COPD News Of The Day — Authority: 131
  Volume 10, Issue 05January 1, 2010Joan Costello, EditorTHE TOP TEN MEDICAL ADVANCES OF THE DECADEBy Peggy Peck and Lauren Cox. The first decade of the 21st century brought a number of discoveries, mistakes and medical advances that influenced medicine from the patient’s bedside to the medicine cabinet. In some ...
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