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The ‘Jaws’ of Pulmonary Fibrosis
The recent loss of Jaws author Peter Benchley adds another name to the long list of prominent people affected by pulmonary fibrosis; Academy Award-winning actor Marlon Brando, acclaimed screenwriter Peter Stone, and music producer Sam Phillips. In the United States, over 200,000 individuals are living with the disease. As a consequence [...]

Lincare execs reap millions via stock plans – Tampa Bay – MSNBC.com
The 2003 Medicare reform law hurt Lincare in two areas beginning in 2005, said the president of The Weeks Group, a Melbourne-based management consulting firm for the home care industry. The law reduced reimbursement for durable medical equipment, including the oxygen equipment that Wallace [...]

Role model beats odds every year: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Linda Bowman recently celebrated her 45th birthday. Five-year-old Kristy Lamb hopes to eventually celebrate hers, too.
They are both fighting cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes their bodies to produce thick mucus that clogs their lungs. Half of people with the disease live until age 32; the [...]

Man Coughs Up Nail 35 Years After Accident
His family rushing him to the hospital with a 105-degree temperature. There, doctors found the culprit, a small nail that had dropped down inside Hart’s body cavity and nestled inside his ribcage.
Doses of penicillin helped Hart heal, but since removing the metal would require major surgery and doctors [...]

Hospital in Northern California needs weekend coverage for possible strike!!

The facility needs coverage for one weekend only!!  February 23rd and 24th
We will pay for flight and hotel
You will do orientation on Friday evening the 22nd.
You will be working 2 twelve hour shifts
You will be compensated $1000 for working the 24 hours on the weekend.
If you [...]

Centre Daily Times | 02/13/2006 | Pulmonary rehab brings hope to sufferers of lung disease
Ever increasing de-conditioning results in more shortness of breath, and so the vicious cycle continues. A comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program provides an educational forum about COPD, as well as supervised exercise under the watchful eye of a respiratory therapist and psychosocial [...]

Kind of a scary article:
Misdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism Found Frequent and Harmful – CME Teaching Brief – MedPage Today
Despite evidence-based guidelines, diagnostic mismanagement of a suspected pulmonary embolism is common and harmful, according to French researchers.
Two large studies reported in the Feb. 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine alerted physicians to a serious [...]

An ad on the Super Bowl for asthmacontrol.com : watch it here:Jerome Bettis: Asthma Control Test – Google Video
Informaton about this ads: Produced by Advair for GlaxoSmithKline.
Asthma doesn’t stop The Bus, and it doesn’t have to stop you. Take the Asthma Control Test (TM) and share your results with your doctor. Take the Asthma Control [...]

What happens if you have mass casualties who all need mechanical ventilation? Sounds like a mess to me, but folks are thinking hard about the allocation of ventilation technologies in such an event. Let’s hope we don’t need to implement it.
Concept of Operations for Triage of Mechanical Ventilation in an Epidemic — Hick and O’Laughlin, [...]

Most WTC Health Registry Enrollees Reported New or Worsened Respiratory Symptoms After 9/11/01
Most enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry reported having one or more respiratory problems that either began or got worse in the weeks and months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, according to the latest quarterly [...]