Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...

Measuring lung function earlier in life would help identify people at risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and allow for more timely interventions, according to a new study ...

It is important to confirm diagnosis of COPD with pulmonary function testing; however, it is not often used, according to findings published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. In the United States, COPD is ...

HealthDay News — Using the Wells rule for pulmonary embolism in combination with either a qualitative point-of-care D-dimer test or a quantitative D-dimer test helps practitioners safety exclude ...

A newly reported case study has documented a novel nonsense variant in the RTEL1 gene in a patient with familial pulmonary fibrosis (PF), adding to an expanding understanding of how telomere-related ...

BRITT - Hancock County Health System (HCHS) is offering the public two opportunities - a Diabetic Education Course and a Pulmonary Function Test Clinic. Both are free of charge. The Diabetic Education ...

A screening blood test originally validated in seriously ill patients without COVID-19 is still clinically useful for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus, a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT), a developer of innovative RNA-based therapeutics, today announced new pulmonary function data through Week 120 from Study ...

Coronary artery compression due to implantation of a transcatheter pulmonary valve can be catastrophic and is often associated with abnormal anatomy, according to a study published online September 24 ...