Antibacterials Market to 2017 - Innovative Anti-Infectives that Target MDR Gram-Negative Pathogens Offer Significant ...

NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Antibacterials Market to 2017 - Innovative Anti-Infectives that Target ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Associated Health-Care Resource Use--North Carolina, 2007 and 2009 [From the ...

JAMA . 2012;307(18):1905-1908. doi: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is a progressive condition in which airflow becomes limited, making it difficult to breathe.

Emphysema (COPD)

MANILA, Philippines --- EMPHYSEMA is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by loss of elasticity and dilatation of the lung tissue. In emphysema the lungs become less and less efficient because of progressive damage to the millions of alveoli, or air sacs, at the ends of the bronchioles in the lungs. Oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange takes place in the walls of the ...

House Calls: Could you be at risk of COPD?

House Calls runs every two weeks. Today’s column is written by Sandra Howerton, a respiratory therapist at Sutter Coast Hospital. What is COPD? Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a serious lung disease that robs people of their ability to breathe. There are two types – chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both types make it harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the ...

Paul Donohue: Lung infection picked up in many places

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 75-year-old female recently diagnosed with MAI, mycobacterium avium-intracellulare. An irregularity was seen on a routine chest X-ray. A CT scan suggested the diagnosis. Later the results were confirmed by a bronchoscopy, in which some contents of the irregularity were cultured in the laboratory.