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Breathing easier at home: Device brings telemedicine to lung patients during pandemic
Last year as the COVID-19 pandemic began to intensify, many patients with the debilitating genetic disease, cystic fibrosis, faced a difficult challenge. Because the disease damages the lungs and makes it hard to breathe, these patients needed in-hospital tests to measure how well their lungs were working. But many also were on drugs that reduce...
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Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Brighter Prospects for Premature Babies
In August 1963, the younger son of President and Mrs. Kennedy died of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who was born 5½ weeks prematurely and weighed only 4 pounds, 10½ ounces, lived for less than two days. Because his lungs were not fully developed, breathing was for him a hopeless struggle. Unfortunately, the loss...
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Preguntas y respuestas sobre tratamiento de la anemia de células falciformes
In English Preguntas ¿Qué es el rasgo de células falciformes? ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre el rasgo de células falciformes y la anemia de células falciformes? ¿Qué significa que alguien tenga el rasgo de células falciformes? ¿Qué investigación se está llevando a cabo para entender mejor el rasgo de células falciformes? ¿Qué es el rasgo de células...
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Questions and answers about sickle cell trait
Questions What is sickle cell trait? What is the difference between sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease? What does it mean if someone has sickle cell trait? What research is being done to better understand sickle cell trait? What is sickle cell trait? Sickle cell trait occurs when a person carries a single copy of the sickle globin gene...
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Economic stimulus fuels NIH search for genetic disease signatures
Today, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced a "Grand Opportunity" Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Project that will spend more than $64 million over two years to identify genetic connections to heart, lung, and blood diseases that account for three of the four leading causes of death...
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Backgrounder: NHLBI Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Project population studies
The $63 million NHLBI Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Project is a "Grand Opportunity" Recovery Act project that will find genetic signatures for heart, lung, and blood diseases that account for 3 of the 4 leading causes of death in the United States. President Barack Obama announced the award September 30, 2009, as part of the $5 billion in new...