News tagged with pulmonary conditions

EU approves kids' use of Pfizer lung medicine

(AP) -- Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. said Thursday that the European commission has approved treating children with its medicine for a rare, deadly lung condition - a drug better known as Viagra.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later

New research presents strong evidence that the "synergistic" effect of early-life exposure to both outdoor traffic-related pollution and indoor endotoxin causes more harm to developing lungs than one or the other exposure ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0