The Lancet

Refiloe Masekela: building access to care for childhood lung disease

In the 2000s, when the AIDS pandemic hit South Africa, we were seeing a lot of children dying from HIV. That was just before ...
MedPage Today on MSN

Alzheimer's-autism links; early-onset dementia risks; CAR-T for MS?

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience ...
Business Wire

New Case Study: bioAffinity Technologies’ CyPath® Lung Provides Actionable Results and Helps Patient Avoid Costly, Invasive Procedures

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIAF; BIAFW), a biotechnology company advancing noninvasive diagnostics for lung cancer and other lung diseases, today released a ...
Managed Healthcare Executive

Acute exacerbations of interstitial lung disease are hard on patients — and costly too

A retrospective administrative claims analysis quantified incremental utilization and direct medical costs for 8,929 patients with fibrosing ILD experiencing qualifying acute exacerbations versus ...
The Lancet

Development and validation of a generalisable machine learning algorithm for identifying interstitial lung disease cohorts: a retrospective cohort study

aDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA bDepartment of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA cDepartment of Medicine, ...
Morningstar

New Case Study Highlights Ability of bioAffinity Technologies’ CyPath® Lung to Reduce Diagnostic Burden for Patients At Risk for Lung Cancer

New Case Study Highlights Ability of bioAffinity Technologies’ CyPath® Lung to Reduce Diagnostic Burden for Patients At Risk for Lung Cancer CyPath® Lung test supported recommendation for surveillance ...
Healthline

Laura Dern Turns Grief Into Advocacy After Late Mother's Battle with Rare Lung Disease

Share on Pinterest Laura Dern’s mom, the actor Dianne Ladd, recently passed away from a rare lung disease. Photography courtesy of BeyondtheScars.com Academy Award-winning actor Laura Dern is sharing ...
dermatologyadvisor

Study Finds Patients With SSc at Increased Risk of Interstitial Lung Disease

Studies estimate the lifetime prevalence of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis to be around 50%. Because patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) are at risk of new-onset interstitial lung ...
BMJ

Epidemiology and disease burden of connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Introduction Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) associated with an underlying connective tissue disease (CTD), also known as a systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease or SARD, are chronic conditions with ...
FierceBiotech

Patient deaths prompt partial hold for Daiichi-Merck's global phase 3 ADC program

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck & Co.’s phase 3 program for their investigational antibody-drug conjugate has been hit with a hold after an unexpected number of deaths were reported in the global trial. “Due ...
People

Stone Countertop Exposure Linked to First Case of Incurable, Life-Threatening Lung Disease in Massachusetts

Health officials confirmed Massachusetts’ first case of silicosis in a man who worked for a stone countertop fabrication and installation company for 14 years Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Genetic Study Establishes Causal Link Between RA and Interstitial Lung Disease Risk

Genetic predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of interstitial lung disease by 15.5%, as shown by Mendelian randomization analysis. The study used 52 single nucleotide polymorphisms ...