As the pandemic wore on, it became clear that persistent lung problems can complicate long-term recovery plans. “I do have some patients with ongoing lung problems, just because having COVID has caused some damage in their lungs,” Zanni says. “That can be very slow to resolve or in so...
requiring careful activity pacing. breathing. lung effects from covid pneumonia may persist. medical treatments plus respitory therapy can improve breathing. functional fitness. when activities of daily life like lifting household objects are no longer performed with ease, function can be restored....
before you take the elevator, walk up the stairs to the 3rd floor first. If you have no problem doing that. Your lung is in excellent condition. There’s no point for you to go to the hospital. If you have difficulty breathing when you reach the second or the third floor, that ...
As a doctor, I knew I needed an incentive spirometer, a handheld device used to improve lung function. But the few they had were for patients sicker than I was. So I jerry-rigged a system of dangling my legs over the bed, inhaling for a count of 15 seconds, then forcing the air ...
Originally intended to improve accuracy, race-based adjustments in spirometry have instead had harmful effects on patients' health, job opportunities, and financial stability. Experts now call for “race-neutral” tests to help end these injustices, highlighting the need to change a system...
NAC may support weight loss through its potential to improve insulin sensitivity, meaning it could help the body use insulin more efficiently, which is crucial for metabolizing sugar and fat. Research suggests that proper insulin function is directly linked to the body’s ability to use fat for ...
We propose structure‒tissue exposure/selectivity–activity relationship (STAR) to improve drug optimization, which classifies drug candidates based on drug's potency/selectivity, tissue exposure/selectivity, and required dose for balancing clinical efficacy/toxicity. Class I drugs have high specificity/...
developing new drugs that act as roadblocks along the metabolic pathway to cut off the supply of vital resources to cancer cells. The drugs would be designed to target highly aggressive tumor-forming cancers that too often become terminal, such as lung, colon, breast, pancreatic, and prosta...
Once patients develop ARDS, their chances of survival fall dramatically. To improve their low blood oxygen levels, patients with ARDS require assistance from mechanical ventilators to breathe. With their reduced lung function, they are also more likely to develop secondary bacterial or fungal infections...
Currently, theonlyrecommended screening test for lung cancer is low-dose CT. But not everyone has easy access to screening facilities, said the other co-lead author Edward Tan, PhD, a former MIT postdoc and currently a scientist at the biotech company Prime Medicine, Cambridge, Massachu...