Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults- ATS Guideline Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli16 July 2020 6:00 PM ISTAmerican Thoracic Society has released new guidelines on quitting smoking that have been published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical...
AI strategy can categorize cancer risk of indeterminate lung nodules Hina Zahid4 May 2020 6:15 PM ISTComputed tomography scans for people at risk for lung cancer lead to earlier diagnoses and improve survival rates, but they can also lead to...
Smoking tobacco may increase lung entry points for COVID-19 virus Hina Zahid1 May 2020 6:15 PM ISTResearchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of South Carolina and other institutions have identified tobacco smoking as a potential risk...
Men have double the death rate compared to women in COVID-19 infection Hina Zahid1 May 2020 12:30 PM ISTIt is established that elderly and those with certain pre-existing conditions appear to be at greater risk.According to a new study appearing in...
Study Identifies characteristics of patients with fatal COVID-19 infection Hina Zahid4 April 2020 6:15 PM ISTResearchers have identified the most common characteristics of 85 COVID-19 patients who died in Wuhan, China in a new study in early stages of the...
COVID-19 patients may have coronavirus upto 8 days after symptoms disappear: Study Hina Zahid1 April 2020 11:00 AM ISTCOVID-19 patients can be infectious even after their symptomatic recovery, so treat the asymptomatic/recently recovered patients as carefully as...
Prone position improves ventilation in severe COVID-19 patients, finds Wuhan study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli25 March 2020 7:48 AM ISTResearchers at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, China have found in a new study that lying face down was better for the lungs in patients with severe...
NOTICE: Vitamin C-B1-steroid combo may lower septic shock mortality in kids Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli14 Feb 2020 5:30 PM ISTUSA: Sepsis can affect anyone at any time but it tends to strike more often the very old and the very young. Children, particularly premature babies...
Higher testosterone levels among women may reduce asthma risk Hina Zahid28 Jan 2020 6:45 PM ISTWomen have a higher predilection for asthma than men. The researchers tried to explore the role of sex hormones to explain sex differences in asthma....
Compared to saline, use of balanced crystalloids reduces mortality in sepsis Medha Baranwal28 Jan 2020 2:54 PM ISTUSA: The use of balanced crystalloids (Ringer's solution) is associated with a lower 30-day in-hospital mortality compared with the use of saline,...
Compared to saline, use of balanced crystalloids reduces mortality in sepsis Medha Baranwal28 Jan 2020 2:52 PM ISTUSA: The use of balanced crystalloids (Ringer's solution) is associated with a lower 30-day in-hospital mortality compared with the use of saline,...
