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Some adults with severe respiratory illness, including women, those with public insurance, and people with fewer financial resources, may be less likely to receive an advanced form of life support known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Measurements using race continue to guide the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary disease. New research looks at the harm that may cause.

A majority of family members of Covid-19 patients treated in ICUs reported significant symptoms of PTSD in the following months.

Date Time Healthy Gut and Healthy Heart, AB Nexus Funds Second Round of Grants In its second funding cycle, AB Nexus program is awarding eight teams grants for innovative research. Now well into its first year, AB Nexus announced a new round of grants totaling $550,000 for collaborative projects from researchers at CU Boulder and CU Anschutz that aim to improve human wellbeing through basic science and translational research approaches. The grant program is supported by the president’s office...

Have Over 343,000 More Americans Died From COVID? A memorial and vigil for victims of COVID-19 held in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in early March. Photo: Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images According to a new analysis by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the coronavirus pandemic may have already killed 905,000 people in the U.S. as of May 3. That is 61 percent higher than the Centers for Disease Con...

Manish Rajput/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The actual count may actually be 6.9 million deaths, more than double official tolls. The United States alone is estimated to have had 905,000 Covid-19 fatalities, vastly more than the 579,000 deaths officially reporte...

Inhaled Therapy Disrupts Excess Mucus Production in Allergic Asthma Model Source: Sasha_Suzi/Getty Images January 13, 2021 Share Nature Communications, the scientists explained how they created an inhaled treatment that disrupted the production of excess mucus by reducing disulfide bonds in mice and opening up their airways. The same treatment had similar impacts on human mucus samples. “Current asthma treatments have minimal effects on mucus, and the lack of therapeutic options stems from a...

Excess mucus in the lungs can be fatal for asthma patients, but scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have broken up those secretions at the molecular level and reversed their often deadly impacts.

Researchers disrupt molecule that causes excess mucus in lungs, may prompt new treatments for pulmonary disease Excess mucus in the lungs can be fatal...