A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung ...

Human health is strongly intertwined with the health of the microbiome. A large number of studies have shown that the human ...

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Culture-independent microbial sequencing techniques have revealed that the respiratory tract harbours a complex microbiome not detectable by conventional culturing methods. The contribution of the ...

The effect of the rate of expiration on the measurement of vital capacity was studied in a group of 75 control subjects and 97 patients with bronchial asthma and pulmonary emphysema. The results ...

Introduction A cohort of patients are left with residual lung abnormalities (RLA) following COVID-19 infection. It is unclear whether these changes resolve over time or progress to fibrotic disease.

as well as to improve bioinformatic strategies based on sequencing data. Whether acquired in utero or not, a newborn’s microbiome experiences rapid growth after delivery, forming a flexible community ...

The understanding that changes in microbiome composition can influence chronic human diseases and the efficiency of therapies has driven efforts to develop microbiota-centred therapies such as first ...

People who have symptoms of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may have a condition known as asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS). Asthma is a chronic lung disease that ...

Full details of the evidence and the committee's discussion are in evidence review Q: drug combinations and sequencing for asthma management.