Cough

Thirty-six years ago, James H. Brien, DO, FAAP, wrote a letter to Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD, congratulating him on the launch of a new publication for which Eickhoff was the chief medical editor, Infectious Disease News.

An unknown illness that causes influenza-like symptoms has left dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo dead and hundreds sick, according to local health officials.

Close to 40% of Hispanic men employed as engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis had an atypical pattern of the disease on CT imaging, according to research presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.

Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis had improved FVC between baseline and 12 weeks with receipt of ISM001-055, a small molecule targeting Traf2- and Nck-interacting kinase, vs. placebo, according to topline results.

BOSTON — When presented with the statement, “I have trouble keeping up with my family, friends, children and/or grandchildren because of IPF” via online survey, 49% agreed, according to a poster presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

A prescription for an opioid-containing cough suppressant was found in more adults with chronic vs. non-chronic cough, according to results published in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease.

At 52 weeks, adults with moderate/severe COPD and type 2 inflammation receiving dupilumab vs. placebo showed more improved symptom scores, according to a poster presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Adults aged 28 years faced heightened odds for respiratory symptoms if they began smoking before turning 18 years old, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Individuals exposed to nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter less than 10 µm as a child faced elevated odds for bronchitic symptoms as an adult, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

The odds for severe acute respiratory disease events rose among previous/current smokers with evidence of quantitative interstitial abnormality, or QIA, progression on CT scans, according to results published in Radiology.