Pulmonary Medicine News

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.

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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.

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC A A- For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today.

R. Duncan Hite, M.D., director of medical intensive care at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been named the new chief of the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

The regular monthly meeting of the Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary was held on Oct.

RESIDENTS in the Selby area are being offered the chance to become volunteers who provide life-saving care to people in an emergency before paramedics arrive.

The American Thoracic Society has released new clinical guidelines for the treatment of exacerbations in cystic fibrosis based on a review of the literature on current clinical practices.

Josh Tirrel, a financial representative with the Theobald Financial Group of the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, recently was appointed a recruiting field director in the Sioux Falls area.

ONLY about one in 10 people know how to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation properly and one in three would not treat a collapsed child despite extensive research showing CPR by a bystander can dramatically increase the chances of survival.

NEW training facilities based at Sheffield's Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre are due to be formally opened later this week.

KOZHIKODE: Chest specialists will gather here in November for NAPCON-2009, 11th national conference of the Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians.

The end of September marked the beginning of a journey in emergency medical services for over 30 Embry-Riddle students associated with the Medical Emergency and Disaster Relief Club.

Life-saving skills will be taught to the public by emergency responders at a free one-off course in Westbury next week.

To date, there is little research to document the effect of telemedicine on physician-patient communication.