Category: Pulmonary, Sleep and Other Medical News

A Third of U.S. Adults Not Getting Enough Sleep One third of U.S. adults — or an estimated 84 million — aren’t getting the recommended

Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Problem FROM CDC “Sleep is increasingly recognized as important to public health, with sleep insufficiency linked to motor vehicle

Smokers not eligible for CT screening under NLST guidelines may have same rate of cancers as those who are eligible Long-term smokers who are at

Whooping cough vaccine less effective over time for middle school children A new study was published in the journal Pediatrics indicates “the protection offered by

Florida Declares Health Emergency Over Zika Cases Florida declared a health emergency after at least nine cases of Zika virus were reported in four counties,

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Risk of Stroke Within the prospective population-based Rotterdam Study, 13,115 participants were followed without history of stroke for occurrence

Zika “Spreading Explosively” Through Americas, but Reach into U.S. “Will Likely Be Limited”  WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said on Thursday that the Zika virus is

Women With Chronic Sleep Problems Have An Increased Risk For Type two Diabetes A study was published in Diabetologia found that in a 133,252-woman study,

Teen e-cigarette users more likely to subsequently smoke A study led by Thomas Wills, a cancer-prevention expert at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, concluded

Study finds insignificant differences in various Nicotine Replacement Therpay quit rates! A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that smoking