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This month’s Lungcast features a discussion on pulmonary function tests and the controversial practice of using race-based normal values.

In this summary, we highlight the latest issue of our pulmonology research quarterly newsletter powered by the American Lung Association Research Institute.

This interview in the latest issue of The Respiratory Report features Stephen Schworer, Md, PhD, discussing the role of mucus plugging in severe asthma.

Joselyn Rojas-Quintero, MD, speaks about her team's current research into COPD treatment on this issue of The Respiratory Report.

The importance of AT2 cells in repairing injured alveoli and maintaining alveoli number and lumen size suggests that COPD therapies may be implemented to improve AT2 cell biology and/or increase AT2 cell numbers.

Abebaw Yohannes, MSc, PhD, speaks about his team’s pilot study designed to assess the use of duloxetine for patients with COPD and comorbid depression.

Pilot study tests duloxetine’s feasibility for depression in COPD, examining patient/physician attitudes, treatment barriers, and therapy effects.

The RECEIVE study develops tools to standardize returning chest CT results in the Lung Health Cohort, improving engagement and ethical practices.

Lungcast reflects on this year in pulmonology, looking back at such topics ranging from the American Lung Association ‘State of the Air’ report to artificial intelligence in lung imaging.

In this month's episode of Lungcast, Jacob Sands, MD, discusses the American Lung Association’s recently newly-released 2024 State of Lung Cancer report.

In this segment of the latest Lungcast episode, the characteristics of AERD and the concerns of patients were highlighted.

In this latest episode of Lungcast, multiple points of view are highlighted regarding Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease (AERD).

A trio of stakeholders join Lungcast to discuss the ongoing, long-term assessment into the patterns and drivers of chronic lung disease in a real-world cohort.

Mora and Sadreameli join Lungcast to provide a back-to-school health blueprint, including topics like rescue inhalers, vaccination, vaping and air quality.

The first Lungcast of 2024 touches on one of the most pressing issues in medicine: burnout, with an organizational expert.

Vogel reviews the struggles behind adequately diagnosing long Covid and quantifying its impact of disease at this time of clinical research.

Lungcast's July episode guest discusses how long Covid therapy development is still about 5 years away from the market.

In the latest Lungcast, a nationally-leading researcher and long COVID patient discusses what's known and unknown about the chronic viral syndrome.

Amid mass poor air quality exposure due to ongoing Canadian wildfires, Lungcast reviews air quality index, signs and symptoms of acute and long-term poor air exposure, high-risk patient populations, and the concerning future of particle pollution exposure.

Lungcast hits the road, as the director of pulmonary and critical care medicine at University of Vermont joins to discuss ATS 2023 headlines and the Airways Clinical Research Network.

On the latest Lungcast, Kalhan reviewed a 2018 paper he and colleagues penned on the need to establish phenotypes of chronic lung disease progression—such as what cardiology has done with LDL-C for heart attacks.

In the latest Lungcast, a pair of experts considered the marriage of low-dose CT scanning and machine learning to optimize lung disease interception.

In addition to sharing how a novel machine learning method may one day soon predict lung disease susceptibility, Kalhan describes the science behind the ALA Lung Health Cohort Research Study.

David Tom Cooke, MD, reviewed the importance of shared decision making as it relates to risk and benefit of cancer screening, as well as in more refined invasive care options.

Cooke joins the first episode of 2023 to discuss his colleague’s specific role in lung cancer screening and intervention and advances to minimally invasive, robotic and bronchoscopic techniques.

American Lung Association's Jennifer Folkenroth discusses the issues with "cold turkey," and what every habitual smoker should look for in a cessation plan.

The American Lung Association ambassadors for tobacco cessation share best practices and their personal stories in this New Years resolution episode.

The pair of pulmonology and microbiology experts join the podcast to discuss what clinicians should look out for in indoor pollutant exposure risks, and how to manage their impact.

The agency has taken new action against Juul while experts worry about youth addiction and health impacts. But the e-cigarette market has been already well established in the US.

Reena Mehra, MD, MS, reviews telling signs, the role of obesity, and the importance of proper testing for sleep apnea.