Pulmonary Medicine News

The cold weather sends people indoors to keep warm leading to a change of environment and shared spaces where germs lurk.

Target: the RLSSA wants 50,000 Australians to learn CPR by Christmas. Royal Life Saving is marking 50 years from when volunteers were injected with a lethal dose of poison to help develop modern life-saving methods.

Winter receives national recognition for international relief work NORWALK Stephen M. Winter, MD, FCCP, of Ridgefield, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, recently received the Humanitarian Award of the Chest Foundation of the American College ...

Most people don't know what the acronym COPD stands for. But chronic obstructive pulmonary disease kills 3 million people worldwide, 115,000 of them in the United States.

Salem-Keizer students with underlying health conditions will be able to get the H1N1 vaccine at three clinics scheduled for Tuesday.

Residents of Emeritus at Crossing Pointe, an Orange County assisted-living facility where state regulators have halted admissions because of health and safety problems, had many questions Monday.

"Right now, with limited vaccine, we encourage local health departments to focus on getting the vaccine to the members of the target group most at risk: young children, pregnant women and people aged 5 through 64 with underlying health conditions" - Mel Kohn, M.D., M.P.H., Oregon public health director Courtesy: globalresearch.ca - Since Sept.

Harm J. Bogaard, MD, PhD * ; Ramesh Natarajan, PhD * ; Scott C. Henderson, PhD ; Carlin S. Long, MD ; Donatas Kraskauskas, DVM ; Lisa Smithson, BSc ; Ramzi Ockaili, PhD ; Joe M. McCord, PhD ; Norbert F. Voelkel, MD From the Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Cardiology , Department of Medicine, and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology , ...

SILVER SPRINGS--Silver Stage Middle School teachers and coaches received some first aid and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation training from Dave and Lorraine Lane.

St. Nicholas Hospital, Prevea Sheboygan Pulmonary Medicine and Sheboygan Lung Specialists are co-sponsoring 'Every Breath You Take: A Respiratory Health Fair' from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov.

Statin treatment is the first thing to come along since oxygen and smoking cessation to influence the long term outcome in COPD patients.

Elizabeth Travis, Ph.D., associate vice president for Women Faculty Programs and professor in the Departments of Experimental Radiation Oncology and Pulmonary Medicine at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received the 2009 Association of American Medical Colleges Women in Medicine Leadership Development Award.

THE importance of first-aid training was brought home to Wendy Rowe less than a year after learning the vital skills of life-saving and she's now in line for an award.

NEW DELHI: Doctor S.N. Gaur, Professor and Head of Department of Pulmonary Medicine, V.P. Chest Institute, University of Delhi, has been awarded Fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences at its 49th annual meeting in Lucknow over the weekend.

WHEN Wendy Rowe rushed to the aid of a man who had collapsed in church she was shocked to discover later on that he was in fact her long-lost cousin.

Six people were recognized Monday with certificates of heroism for their actions on Oct.

From the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute , Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology , University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Centre for Biomedical Sciences , Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom; Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System , Justus-Liebig-Universitt ...

Recently, local fire departments received significant assistance from the Eagles Grant for Automated External Defibrillators and other equipment.

Firefighters and medics are credited with saving the life of a 23-year-old, pregnant Clinton woman whose car ended upside down in a creek.

Afghan National Army soldiers gather around as a U.S. Navy corpsman, lower right, conducts a lifesaving class at Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Nawa district, Helmand province, Afghanistan Sept.