News tagged with oxygen therapy
Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks — and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Powerful free radical causes lung damage from oxygen therapy
The most toxic free radical appears responsible for much of the lung damage that can result from oxygen therapy in the critically ill or injured, Medical College of Georgia researchers report.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Study challenges value of oxygen therapy in end-of-life care
Millions of patients with advanced disease in palliative care settings receive oxygen therapy to help them breathe more easily. But a new study from Duke University Medical Center says roughly half of them don't benefit ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Change in how paramedics use oxygen could reduce deaths
A change to the way paramedics use oxygen when treating patients with chronic lung disease could cut the death rate in these cases by up to 78%, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Growth-factor gel shows promise as hearing-loss treatment
A new treatment has been developed for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in early middle-age. Researchers writing in the open access journal ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 24, 2010 |
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