Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...

Wyoming's Horse Creek becomes fourth elk feeding ground in state to test positive since January, and Louisiana's Catahoula ...

An H5N1 infection can be fatal for domestic animals, but there are steps you can take to minimize the risk of them catching ...

Concerns have mounted that prolonged exposure to the haze would pose a severe health risk, triggering such ailments as asthma, chronic respiratory disease and heart conditions. He said the city could ...

People with severe respiratory diseases, like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma, face unique challenges during the month of Ramadan owing to the need for hydration and ...

When it first develops, emphysema, one of a group of lung diseases ... respiratory rate for a healthy adult ranges from 12 to 18 breaths per minute. Tachypnea is defined as taking more than 20 breaths ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to gradual kidney damage that reduces the kidneys’ ability to filter blood. CKD progresses through stages 1 to 5. Stage 4 CKD is the final stage before ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, had two respiratory crises on Monday in a setback to his recovery. Doctors extracted “copious ...

the healing phase of acute respiratory-distress syndrome was prolonged; secondly, chronic pulmonary disease invariably appeared in the surviving infant after a hundred and fifty hours of exposure ...

Now, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... including pets of dairy and poultry workers and those fed raw milk or meat. Such surveillance is necessary given ...

Rationale Pulmonary rehabilitation is an effective treatment for people with chronic respiratory disease but is delivered to <5% of eligible individuals. This study investigated whether home-based ...

Background: Chronic lung diseases and drugs used to treat patients with chronic lung diseases may be associated with an increased fracture risk. Methods: The design was a case-control study of all ...