Respiratory Therapeutics Week

Oncology - Patients with pulmonary carcinoid tumors show excellent prognosis after surgical treatment

Otorhinolaryngology - Intratympanic steroid therapy for inner ear diseases needs further study

Otorhinolaryngology - Nasal septal surgery patient selection is improved with a subjective ordinal scale

Otorhinolaryngology - Topical pharyngeal anaesthesia does not improve upper endoscopy tolerance

Pediatric Lung Transplantation - Lung transplant pediatric patient preferred methods of excess hair removal are studied

Pediatric Respiratory Medicine - Childhood pneumonia-causing pneumococcal serotypes are determined

Personnel - Egbert Mundt, expert on avian diseases, comes to the University of Georgia

Pneumonia Therapy - Oral cotrimoxazole acceptable for nonsevere pneumonia at first-level health care facilities

Pneumonia Therapy - WHO criteria for nonsevere pneumonia therapy failure in children too sensitive

Product Licensing - Accentia signs license for all non-prescription intranasal formulations for sinusitis

Respiratory Medicine - Key study indicates that cancer treatments may be helpful in patients with lung and joint disease

Respiratory Medicine - PARI Respiratory launches nasal drug delivery program for treatment of upper respiratory conditions

Respiratory Medicine - Pneumothorax or persistent air leak can be treated with endobronchial valve device

Respiratory Medicine - Respiratory virus infections in hospital admissions were monitored using rapid methods

Respiratory Medicine - Wheeze and cough severity identified by rapid thoracoabdominal compression techniques

Respiratory Medicine - Women on oxygen therapy for COPD are more likely to die than men

Rheumatoid Arthritis - Kemia completes successful phase I trials for oral anti-inflammatory drug

SARS - SARS coronavirus infectivity inhibited by peptides analogous to viral spike protein

Sleep Apnea - Researchers discover a new type of sleep apnea

Stem Cell Transplantation - Preoperative low-dose irradiation promotes long-term allograft acceptance

Stem Cell Transplantation - Stem cell transplant recipients may frequently develop asymptomatic human metapneumovirus infection

Stem Cell Transplantation - Structural and functional ciliary abnormalities common in stem cell transplantation recipients

Tobacco Use - Angiogenesis is common in the bronchial tissues of smokers with and without airway obstruction

Tuberculosis - Peripheral blood white cell counts at diagnosis may help predict TB treatment response

Tuberculosis Control - Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis threatens to destabilize tuberculosis control

Tuberculosis Diagnostics - Artificial sputum developed for tuberculosis panel testing

Tuberculosis Diagnostics - Chest radiography is sensitive alternative to sputum examination for tuberculosis detection

Tuberculosis Diagnostics - Tuberculosis detected by PCR from sputum-spotted FTA cards

Tuberculosis Epidemiology - Drug resistant tuberculosis risk highest among foreigners in British Columbia

Tuberculosis Epidemiology - Three countries account for 62% of estimated global multidrug-resistant tuberculosis burden

Tuberculosis Risk Factors - Prolonged cough increases risk for excess mortality and tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Susceptibility - SP110 gene variants associated with genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africa

Angiology - Findings from Germany and France describe new data in angiology research

Aspergillosis - Researchers from the United States and Germany publish new studies and findings in the area of aspergillosis

Asthma - New data from Canada, the United States and Australia lluminates research in asthma

Cancer Treatment - New findings in cancer treatment described from the United States

Coronavirus - New data from the People's Republic of China and United States lluminates research in coronavirus

Diagnostics - Researchers' findings from Italy, Germany and France advance diagnostics research

Head & Neck Cancer - New findings from South Korea and Italy in the area of head & neck cancer described

Heart Attack - Studies from Austria and the United States describe new findings in heart attack research

Influenza - Studies from the People's Republic of China, United States and Canada add new findings to influenza body of knowledge

Lung Cancer - New data from Australia, Greece and Taiwan lluminates research in lung cancer

Lung Cancer - New findings from Greece, Italy and Spain in the area of lung cancer detailed

Lung Cancer - New findings in lung cancer described from Greece, Netherlands and Japan

Lung Cancer - Researchers from Italy, the United States and Canada report recent findings in lung cancer

Nasopharyngeal Cancer - Findings from Singapore, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China advance knowledge in nasopharyngeal cancer research

Neurology - Researchers' work from the United States, Germany and France adds to neurology body of knowledge

Otorhinolaryngology - Researchers' work from Germany and the South Korea adds to otorhinolaryngology body of knowledge

Papillomavirus - Researchers from the United States and United Kingdom provide details of new studies and findings in the area of papillomavirus

Radiotherapy - Recent findings from Netherlands, Turkey and Italy illuminate research in radiotherapy

Respiratory System - Studies from South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Netherlands describe new findings in respiratory system research

SARS - Findings from the United States and Netherlands in SARS provide new insights