Pulmonary

Bristol, October 8: Expectant mothers with high stress levels are 65% more likely to give birth to children that will suffer from asthma as they grow, than those expectant mothers having low stress levels, a study presented at the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Berlin shows.

Viagra can be a life saver…!! This may sound strange, but it’s true. The little blue pill, better known for helping men's sex lives, is helping keep a seven-year-old Scottish girl, who suffers from a rare lung condition, alive.

Harvard researchers suggests that extensively drug resistant or XDR Tuberculosis can be treated effectively with aggressive therapy.

While boys are more likely to outgrow asthma and its symptoms with age, girls find it difficult to get rid of the problem as the years pass, specially after the onset of puberty, making it a more permanent condition in them; says latest study report.

With stem cell research reaching new heights day by day, the recent and one of the widely welcomed piece of news which is flashing in our faces is, the fact that the day of having user specific, personalized, stem cells is no more a distant dream.

Canadian researchers have discovered that helium when combined with the 40 percent of oxygen helped patient with chronic obstructive pulmonarydefine disease (COPD) to increase their exercise capacity by an average of 245 cent.

COPD is a chronic lung disease in which breathing of a person becomes slow and forced. It is caused by smoking and includes the conditions of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

New York -- Doctors should stop routinely prescribing antibiotics to treat acute bronchitis as most cases are viral infections, says a study that recommends patients drink lots of fluids instead.

Acute bronchitis is an inflammation of the main airways to the lungs characterised by an irritating cough. The disease occurs in about five percent of adults each year and doctors prescribe antibiotics to 70-80 percent of patients for the condition.

London -- Tuberculosis (TB) showed an alarming rise in Britain last year with ethnic South Asians, especially Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi, accounting for most cases.

According to figures released by Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA), there was a 10.8 percent increase in TB cases in Britain, with 8,113 cases in 2005 as against 7,321 in 2004.

If you are ardently devoted to smoking then you are at a higher risk of developing a chronic, obstructive lung disease, a study by British and Danish researchers revealed.