Monitoring blood for tiny particles released by cells lining the lungs may help clinicians diagnose emphysema in its earliest stages, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College. The ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe — yet many people don’t know as much about it as they ...

March 14, 2010 — Endothelial microparticles (EMPs) in plasma may be an early marker for emphysema, according to a study published online March 11 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All-cause mortality in COPD patients was “strongly predicted” by diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon ...

The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

During a regular annual physical exam, blood is usually drawn to check the health of a person's heart, kidneys and liver. Now, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center ...

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ndd Medical Technologies (ndd), a leading provider of diagnostic technology enabling healthcare professionals the early detection of COPD and other chronic lung ...

Clinicians working within the US healthcare system order CTs; it's just what we do, and we do it a lot. This isn't necessarily bad, but an inevitable by-product is the pandemic of incidental findings.