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IPF diagnosis: how do patients feel about the discussion with their physician?

IPF (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis) is a difficult disease to diagnose. Many patients will experience many visits to the doctor and some may even be told they have a different respiratory condition before they finally get the correct diagnosis that...

12 Dec 2016

Researchers discover new pathway that opens door to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Researchers from the University of South Carolina, Duke University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Metabolon Inc. Research Triangle Park have discovered a new pathway in the liver that opens the door to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that affects up to 25 percent of the population and may lead to cirrhosis and eventually liver cancer or failure, and likely other liver diseases.

9 Dec 2016

Lungs News and Research

IPF diagnosis: how do patients feel about the discussion with their physician?

Researchers discover new pathway that opens door to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Never-smoking women are susceptible to COPD, study suggests

Study reports influence of air pollution on pulmonary vascular function

Researchers identify protein that degrades and inhibits infectious biofilms

Researchers crack genetic code of lung tissues to identify novel targets for treating IPF

Music can be effective medicine to promote healing and wellness

Study reveals men diagnosed with prostate cancer more likely to die of other diseases

Scientists discover truncated p53 proteins that promote cancer growth and metastasis

PITX2 methylation biomarker shows promise for predicting prostate cancer recurrence risk

Study shows involvement of lipid metabolism in tumour metastasis

iPLATO introduces new ‘smoking QOF’ feature on innovative myGP app ahead of NHS financial year

New chemosensor offers better sensitivity in detecting biomarker for cancer and inflammatory diseases

UCLA researchers discover how chronic inflammation increases prostate cancer risk

Sedentary lifestyle may increase risk of environmentally induced lung disease

PD-1 protein could serve as biomarker for predicting survival of lung cancer patients

Scientists discover new biomarker to help determine aggressiveness of brain cancer

Cedars-Sinai receives $7.3 million grant to test safety of novel cell-based therapy in treating PAH

Global experts meet at IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Vienna

Dual therapy safe and effective in patients with recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma

Leveraging the power of automation to boost research

Automating research - solutions and best practices

How can microdialysis benefit drug development

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