Dava Stewart

Researchers are close to identifying reliable biological, genetic, and radiological biomarkers of migraine.

Computed tomography may be a better tool for diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the frequent comorbidity pulmonary hypertension than the conventional method of using pulmonary function tests, Chinese researchers report.

A recent review shows that guidelines and testing for patients with distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP) can and should be improved.

Children with autism have a distinctly different functional connectivity, federal researchers report.

Moderate consumption of alcohol can lower the risk of ischemic stroke, Korean researchers report.

Researchers try to determine the future of statins in treating asthma. The drugs show promise but pills might not be the best way to get them into the respiratory tract.

Researchers investigating the question of whether or not vitamin D status could predict disease activity in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) found more questions than answers.

A transdermal tulobuterol patch may help patients with COPD exercise for longer at a relatively high intensity, Japanese researchers report.

Researchers have shown that roflumilast can help lungs damaged by smoking work better.

Obese patients had far more post-operative complications after back surgery, a New Jersey research team found.

Researchers assess the association between endovascular mechanical thrombectomy and clinical outcomes after ischemic stroke.

In Kentucky, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and multiple comorbidities are major public health issues, and there is variation in the occurrence of both COPD and the various comorbidities depending on both gender and where in the state people live. A research team looked at the factors contributing to both.

New parents may instinctively keep their baby away from the family dog. But according to a large Swedish study, early exposure to dogs and to farm animals lessens the risk an infant will develop asthma.

Researchers investigating the link between chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have found convincing evidence to support the co-occurrence of COPD and PTSD.

Risk of developing migraines is increased for those who have low back pain, a low level of education, a heavy physical workload, or participate in heavy recreational activities, but is decreased for those who drink alcohol frequently.

Researchers report a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis does not increase the risk of anxiety and depression.

Researchers have confirmed that bronchoscopy is a good tool for the diagnosis of bronchogenic cysts, and that therapeutic aspiration is an alternative to surgery for adults who are unfit or are reluctant to have surgery; however, transbronchial needle aspiration as a primary method of managing mediastinal bronchogenic cysts may not be the best modality for all patients.

Eyelid myoclonia with absences (EMA) can be misdiagnosed as a tic disorder, and reassessment of patients with particular symptoms is advisable.

The number of stroke incidence estimates remains about the same, whether those estimates are based on the physician's opinion or on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, according to a Cincinnati, Ohio study.

Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less physically active and play alone more than with other children, and the amount of physical activity is associated with socioeconomic status.

There are so many problems associated with the aging spine in older people that Canadian researchers want to coin a new term to cover them, called "degenerative cervical myelopathy."

Age and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) play a part in how the lungs respond to ozone, according to a recent study by Kelsa Gabehart, PhD, of the Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, in Denver, Colorado, and colleagues.

The risk of developing migraine is increased for those who have low back pain, a low level of education, a heavy physical workload, or participate in heavy recreational activities, but is decreased for those who drink alcohol frequently.

There is a positive association of measures of pulmonary function with lipoprotein a [Lp(a)] in older adults who live in a community setting, according to a recent study.

Researchers have found that current smokers and those with chronic bronchitis are likely to have greater goblet cell density (GCD) than non-smokers or people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

A drug company's study of medical care in the Middle East found US guidelines are being closely followed in treating community aquired pneumonia.

Researchers in the UK have concluded that lifestyle and patient comorbidities play a role in whether or not patients survive multiple sclerosis (MS). Susan Jick, DSc, of the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, and colleagues, published the results from a population based observational study in the Journal of Neurology, in September 2015.

After a stroke, if patients recover either motor skills or language skills, they are likely to recover both, a study found.

A vitamin D deficiency makes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worse, according to Nele Heulens, of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and several colleagues.

Children with pneumonia have an increased risk of developing COPD and decreased lung-function, Boston researchers say.