Respiratory Therapeutics Week

Business Update - Symbollon gets U.S. FDA regulatory guidance for developing upper respiratory tract drug

Emergency Medicine - Percutaneous transtracheal ventilation during respiratory arrest successful

Lung Cancer - Lung tumor radiotherapy planning via 4DCT minimizes risk of normal tissue toxicity

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - Avastin filed in Europe for treatment of most common form of lung cancer

Respiratory Medicine - Respiratory syncytial virus-related lower respiratory tract infections higher in preterm infants

Airway Viral Infection - Antiviral defense impaired in epithelial nitric oxide-deficient patients

Allergy & Immunology - Sinonasal endoscopy is a painless way to relieve sinusitis symptoms

Anesthesia - Fiberoptic endotracheal intubation recommended if a difficult airway is known or anticipated

Anesthesia - Fiberoptic orotracheal intubation using two airways are compared

Avian Influenza - H5N1 influenza virus characterized from bar-headed geese collected during outbreak

Business & Finance - Inspire's Q2 2006 revenues total $13.4 million

Cancer Therapy - Cancer growth is stopped or delayed by double therapy in murine models

Cancer Therapy - Lung cancer brain metastases treatment should consider chemotherapy as therapy cornerstone

Cancer Therapy - Potential implications of flavonoid-induced glutathione depletion for cancer treatment examined

Collaborations - Oscient and Abbott Canada enter into agreement for Factive tablets, launch later this year

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Lung cancer metastasis inhibited by berberine

Critical Care Medicine - The Airtraq laryngoscope is superior for novice personnel intubation training

Diagnostics - Acute lung injury diagnosis is supported by early measure of BNP after acute pulmonary edema onset

Diagnostics - Reasons for poor outcomes and diagnoses of advanced stage cancer in indigenous Australians analyzed

Disease Outbreaks - Small concentrations of Aspergillus spores can cause an aspergillosis outbreak

Emergency Medicine - Emergency laryngoscopy augmentation with a short optical stylet is presented

Finance - Meridian Bioscience provides sales, earnings guidance for 2007 and reaffirms 2006 guidance

Finance - Rotech reports Q2 2006 net revenues of $111.8 million, down from $133 million in Q2 2005

Head & Neck Cancer - Elective N0 neck treatments should include levels II, III, and IV

Head & Neck Cancer - Level V lymph node dissection is not necessary in N+ necks below stage N2a

Head & Neck Cancer - Pyriform sinus carcinoma predictive factors for lymph node metastasis are determined

Head & Neck Cancer - Recurrent squamous cell carcinoma is treated with microsurgery and adjuvant radiotherapy

Human Papillomavirus - Smoking related to lower high-risk human papillomavirus clearance in HIV-negative women

Human Rhinovirus - HRV drug to proceed to Phase Ib clinical trial of rhinovirus drug BTA798

Hunter Syndrome - Idursulfase is effective treatment for Hunter syndrome, clinical trial concludes

Hypertension - Predix starts Phase II clinical trial for pulmonary hypertension with chronic pulmonary disease

Influenza B Virus Epidemiology - Victoria lineage influenza B virus re-emerging in Brazil

Laryngeal Cancer - Optical coherence tomography shows potential for laryngeal cancer diagnosis

Lung Cancer - Lung adenocarcinoma risk linked to OGG1-Ser326Cys polymorphism

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer linked to loss of MSH2 expression

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer patients palliated by paclitaxel, etoposide and carboplatin regimen

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer patients responded to front-line paclitaxel and topotecan chemotherapy

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer response rate not improved after adding mitomycin C to docetaxel

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer treated by administering pemetrexed immediately after gemcitabine as front-line therapy

Lung Cancer - Lung carcinogenesis might be linked to human papillomavirus infection

Lung Cancer - Lung tumorigenesis found linked to Delta DNMT3B

Lung Cancer - Non-small cell lung cancer metastasis is marked by aminopeptidase N

Lung Cancer - Non-small cell lung cancer survival and response correlated with mismatch repair system status

Lung Cancer - Nonmalignant respiratory diseases may be independent risk factors for lung cancer

Lung Cancer - Nonsmall cell lung cancer risk linked to polymorphism in promoter of MDM2 gene

Melanoma - Melanoma metastasis to the lungs may be prevented with anti-tissue factor gene therapy

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Diagnostics -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis recovery improved by microscopic observation drug susceptibility

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Drug Resistance - Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from South Africa are pyrazinamide resistant

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Epidemiology - Isoniazid-resistant Delta 315 mutant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains frequently isolated

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Pathogenesis -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis early immune responses are slow in local and peripheral compartments

Neonatology - Carbon dioxide detection methods in neonates are reviewed

Neonatology - Preterm infants sleep prone more efficiently with fewer arousals, more central apneas

Neuroendocrine Carcinoma - Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung prognosis improved with chemotherapy

Neuroscience - Airway-related neurons express nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits

Otorhinolaryngology - Adenotonsillectomy improves behavior in children with sleep-disordered breathing