Reaching new heights: Acute mountain sickness associated with blood flow changes

Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is common at high altitudes and is often associated with headaches. AMS is theorized to be ...

Rising temperatures linked to shorter, poorer sleep for US adults

Higher nighttime temperatures are linked to shorter sleep times and lower sleep quality, especially for people with chronic ...
American Lung Association

Learn About Pulmonary Hypertension

Oxygen-poor blood returning to the heart from all body organs and tissues travels to the right side of the heart which pumps the blood through the pulmonary arteries into the lungs. Within the lungs, ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Enhancing Pulmonary Disease Prediction Using Large Language Models With Feature Summarization and Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Multicenter Methodological Study Based ...

The reports were from four cohorts, healthy individuals, patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, lung cancer, and pneumonia. Then a novel prompt engineering strategy that integrates feature ...
News Medical

Digital health program increases lung cancer screening rates in high-risk individuals

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MD Anderson Cancer Center, has found that a ...
American Lung Association

Why Vaccines Matter When You Have Chronic Lung Disease

For individuals with chronic lung disease, any respiratory infection can turn into a severe illness. Illnesses like influenza (flu), COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumonia can make ...
The Lancet

Disproportionality analysis of interstitial lung disease associated with novel antineoplastic agents during breast cancer treatment: a pharmacovigilance study

aBreast Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Centre, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, China bDepartment of Oncology, Qinghai Red Cross ...
Frontiers

Diagnosis model for assessing chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in high-altitude pulmonary embolism patients: a machine learning approach

Background: Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) at high altitude face an increased risk of developing chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). This study aims to establish a diagnosis ...
IEEE

Automatic lung segmentation in HRCT images with diffuse parenchymal lung disease using graph-cut

Abstract: High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is a dedicated medical imaging technique for diffuse parenchymal lung disease evaluation. Such diseases give rise to variability in visual ...
The New Yorker

What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High

Ojos del Salado rises more than twenty-two thousand feet above sea level, on Chile’s northeastern border. It is the world’s tallest volcano, towering over the world’s highest desert: an ...
CNN

Among high-income countries, US shows slowest progress in reducing risk of chronic disease deaths, new study finds

Among all high-income Western countries, the United States has shown the worst performance in reducing the probability of dying from chronic diseases, a new study finds. From 2010 to 2019, deaths due ...