Pulmonary Medicine News

• Hospital Medicine Gains Popularity Among Newly Minted Physicians More senior physicians trend toward outpatient care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ESC-HF Voice-Analysis App Promising as Acute-HF Early Warning System It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. 'But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2022
• How to Manage Drug Interactions With Paxlovid for COVID Some drugs can be held or reduced for the 5-day course. IDSA has published an online guide. Availability in pharmacies has greatly increased in recent weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Occult Hypoxemia More Common in Patients With Darker Skin? Black and Hispanic patients undergoing anesthesia may be more likely than White patients to experience occult hypoxemia, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways A new decision tree tool developed by an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) task force helps anesthesiologists manage their patients who have difficult airways.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• ATS 2022 COVID Burnout? Turn Off Your Mind, Relax, and Float Downstream A randomized trial showed that transcendental meditation can relieve burnout-related stress and emotional exhaustion.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Pollution Killing 9 Million People a Year, Africa Hardest Hit: Study Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015, countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Some Smokers Don't Get Lung Cancer; Genetics Might Explain It Smoking can cause cell mutations that lead to lung cancer; however, some people may have a genetic defense against it.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• Global Smoking Rates Fall for First Time, but Rise for Kids, Africa: Report Smoking rates have declined globally for the first time on record, according to a new report on tobacco use from a public health campaign group and US academics.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Post-Pulmonary Embolism Impairment Frequent, Follow-Up Urged After Acute PE In a large study of patients with acute pulmonary embolism, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension was rare, but post-pulmonary embolism impairment was not.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Patients' Bad Behavior Provokes Burnout in Physicians: Study Mistreatment and discrimination by patients increase the risk of physician burnout; for 1 in 5 physicians, patients refused care because of the physician's appearance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• ATS 2022 NAVIGATOR Steers Uncontrolled Asthma Toward Calmer Seas The phase 3 trial showed high complete response rates and reduced disease burden with tezepelumab vs placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Drug Stalls Lung Deterioration in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis An experimental treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis can stall the degradation of forced vital capacity both in patients who are undergoing therapy and among those who are not receiving antifibrotics, according to a phase 2 test of 147 volunteers.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• Albuterol-Budesonide Combo Offers Better Rescue Therapy for Moderate to Severe Asthma Among patients with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma, a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide gives better as-needed relief than albuterol alone, a large international study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• US Tops 1M COVID Deaths: 'History Should Judge Us Harshly' Case numbers are rising again, and the United States reaches a once unimaginable and grim milestone.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Resting Heart Rate Predicts Fitness Level The number of times the heart beats when an individual is inactive is a biomarker for fitness and cardiorespiratory health that can be monitored to assess disease, a new analysis shows.
  First Look, May 16, 2022
• ATS 2022 Race-Based Spirometry May Lead to Missed Diagnoses Adjusting for purported racial differences may lead to underdiagnosis and undertreatment of Black patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Tuberculosis: The Disease That Changed World History Scientific discoveries have greatly improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. Yet efforts to eradicate the disease appear to have taken a step backward.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Writing Out Common Medical Terms Boosts Patient Knowledge: Study Research published in JAMA Network Open shows that patients are more likely to understand their health conditions when healthcare providers avoid abbreviations and acronyms in written communications.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022