Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road ...

Removing race from equations that estimate lung function will shift the categorization of disease severity across patient populations, moving more Black individuals into an advanced disease ...

SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to ...

EULAR - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology - has worked with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to ...

Skolnik said, “For example, pulmonary function tests like spirometry are very helpful in gaining insight as to whether someone has active respiratory disease.” Go With the Pro Diagnosing ...

The findings, the research team said, suggest that adjusting lung function tests to include race — as has been the case historically — likely normalized worse lung function and downplayed ...

Pulmonary function labs in hospitals, the authors said, may need to build more capacity and be prepared for a possible increase in patient volume as more patients require follow-up lung testing.

Chronic lung disease evident on HRCT is prominent among adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV and is linked to small airway obstruction.

A father's exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk ...

H.C. Wainwright on Tuesday raised its price target on MannKind to $11 from $9 and reiterated its buy rating on the shares, ...

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