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New device could detect inflammation in lungs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): To improve the management of asthma and other respiratory diseases, researchers have created a graphene-based sensor that could lead to earlier detection of looming asthma attacks.
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Respiratory infection can break your heart
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 16 (ANI): The risk of having a heart attack is 17 times higher in the seven days following a respiratory infection, according to a recent study.
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Mentoring Frontline Health Workers as the Champions of NCD Prevention
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 20 (ANI-NewsVoir): Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 60 percent of deaths in India each year. According to a WHO report, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes constitute 82 percent of all NCD deaths globally.
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Teens who smoke pot at 15 or below may suffer memory loss, respiratory dis
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 29 (ANI): A team of Canadian researchers has found that teenagers, who begin smoking pot as early as 15 or younger, may suffer long-term cognitive impairment, memory loss, physical illnesses and respiratory diseases.
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Air pollution alters effectiveness of antibiotics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Mar. 3 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Leicester have, for the first time, discovered that bacteria that cause respiratory infections are directly affected by air pollution - increasing the potential for infection and changing the effectiveness of antibiotic t
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Cipla initiates campaign for a pollution free Delhi; starts #saveyourlungs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): The World Health Organization recently reported that 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India. National Capital Delhi also figures in the list of 13. The environmental exposure to increasing air pollutants in Delhi is so immensely affecting
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Study traces origin of respiratory muscle
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 21 (ANI): A recent study published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences journal throws light on mammal-like reptiles, Caseids and their breathing pattern.
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Teenagers resorting to e-cigarette may face serious lung health issues
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
WashingtonD.C. [US], Nov. 18 (ANI): A recent research published in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care indicates that e-cigarette smoking can lay substantial effect on young smokers' health even if they do not later become tobacco smoke
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Cough virus helps combat liver cancer in adulthood
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 16 (ANI): A virus that cause respiratory illnesses and stomach upsets in children could help in the fight against primary liver cancer, according to a study.
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CM Jayalalithaa on respiratory support, passive physiotherapy, says Apollo
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Oct.10 (ANI): Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa is constantly being monitored by Intensivists and consultants as necessary respiratory support, antibiotics, nutrition, supportive therapy and passive physiotherapy are being given to her, said the Apollo Hospital man
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Household dust can decline IQ level in children, trigger respiratory probl
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Sept. 24 (ANI): Household dust exposes people to a wide range of toxic chemicals from everyday products, states a recent study conducted at the George Washington University.
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Preemies suffer lifetime breathing trouble, despite lung treatment after b
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [England]. Sept 19 (ANI): A study says that premature babies, who receive breathing treatments to improve lung function early in life, may have respiratory challenges as children and adolescents
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