umcg.nl Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive, incurable lung disease characterised by abnormal tissue repair causing emphysema and small airways fibrosis. Since ...

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

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Credit: Lana Leon/Shutterstock. Tribune Therapeutics has secured €37m ($39.9m) in seed and Series A funding to propel its therapy portfolio aimed at the central drivers of scar tissue formation. The ...

SAN ANTONIO — If you aren't a smoker, you may think you are out of the woods when it comes to lung cancer. Not only can non-smokers get it, but a new study says the number of non-smokers getting ...

An AI-powered tool for pneumonia detection in chest X-rays using deep learning. Built with MobileNetV3 Small architecture, this application achieves 93% accuracy with fast inference (~45ms/image) and ...

Bob Ryser explains why leaders who train personnel must build programs to work to undo bad muscle memory that was created without realization. Whether you’ve been in the fire service for 20 ...

Research from the University of Sheffield analyzed records from more than 170,000 lung cancer patients in England between 2014 and 2018, combined with chest X-ray rates from 7,400 GP practices.

A multimodal multitask AI model significantly enhances lung cancer screening by improving the prediction of lung cancer risk by 20% and cardiovascular risk by 10% using low-dose CT scans.

Microscopic plastic pollutants drifting through the air are lodging in the lungs of birds, a new University of Texas at Arlington study finds. Researchers worldwide are increasingly alarmed by how ...

It’s important to remember that these are still tissue samples from individuals who received a lung transplant. So even though a particular region looked normal, by definition these individuals were ...