American Thoracic Society journal news tips for October (first issue)
...hrough a mouthpiece for 1 second and the number of coughs in the first 10 seconds after inhalation were recorded. The researchers usedinhaled capsaicin, a white crystalline extract of red pepper, and citric acid to cause coughing. Measurements of each successive cough challenge were significantly lower for...Protecting babies from RSV could reduce the chances of wheeze and asthma during childhood
...NHS Trust have discovered that keeping people with coughs and sneezes away from young babies may cut the likelihood of developing wheeze or asthma later in childhood. Results of the researchers' study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, show that by simply delaying when an infant suffers fro...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2004 (first issue)
... of being cultured), which were generated from the coughs of patients with proven pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). The investigators developed a cough aerosol sampling system to test 16 subjects with smear-positive pulmonary TB. Cough-generated aerosols were positive in 4 subjects (25 percent). The authors s...Laser surgery offers advantages for voice disorders
...healthy tissue. "You numb the larynx, the patient coughs and spreads the medicine down the throat, and minutes later, it's over," Koufman said. Gregory N. Postma, M.D., a laryngologist at Wake Forest Baptist, said that when he gives his patients a choice of using the PDL method versus standard surgery, n...Using over-the-counter drugs to treat upper respiratory infections may save $4.75 billion annually
...r respiratory infections, such as the common cold, coughs and the flu, are often caused by viruses, whose symptoms can be treated with OTC medications....Chocolate ingredient could put a stop to persistent coughs and lead to new cough medicines
...arly a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs when compared with codeine, currently considered the best cough medicine. Professor Peter Barnes, from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, and one of the paper's authors, comments: "Coughing is a medical condition which affects most ...