POSTS TAGGED AS pulmonary

Laser-Enabled Breath Analysis

Breath Analysis
Breath has a physiological “fingerprint” from the small amounts of gases that are released from both healthy and diseases [MORE]

“Breathprints” in Personalized Medicine

It may come to be called “breathomics”—an individual’s stable and specific breathprint.  Swiss researchers, in mass spectroscopy analyses of [MORE]

Smartphone Spirometer for Lung Health

Spiro Smart
Based on sound waves during breathing, engineers at the University of Washington have shown that a smartphone’s microphone can [MORE]

Housing and Health

Insurer Aetna estimates the average cost of a hospital ER visit for asthma to be around $6,000.  With that [MORE]

An Artificial Lung

Artificial Lung
This piece is mind-boggling.  Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have developed an artificial lung [MORE]

A Virtual Bronchoscope

Flexible Bronchoscope
Rigid bronchoscopy, which usually requires general anesthesia and some risk of damage to airways or vocal cords, can [MORE]

Polyurethane Coated Tracheal Stent

Fraunhofer Stent
The windpipe isn’t s simple tube; it contains cells that purify inhaled air.  So, it is important [MORE]

Breathing Microspheres

Injectable Oxygen
In emergency situations, where a person’s lungs have filled with a liquid (e.g. pneumonia), life saving oxygen flow [MORE]

Distance Monitoring of COPD

This piece describes a telemonitoring protocol that researchers at UCLA and eResearch Technology (Philadelphia, PA) have put together to [MORE]

Regenerating Lung Tissue

Most of the attention in regenerative medicine has gone to stem cell strategies, but investigators at Weill Cornell have [MORE]

Generating and Storing Oxygen at Home

HomeLox
About 1.5 million Medicare patients now are on oxygen at home for their chronic respiratory conditions.  Typically, they receive [MORE]

Blood Glucose Reading from Exhaled Breath

A patent must prove to be novel, useful and not obvious, and it has been the usefulness of earlier [MORE]

Sensing SIDS

Dr.Domenico Zito developed microchip sensor
Besides sleep assessment, as described in the previous story, sensors that can measure slight [MORE]

New Device to Predict Asthma Attacks

With a handheld device that measures the amount of nitrogen monoxide in an asthma sufferer’s breath, Siemens has created [MORE]