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Respiratory Medicine
Respiratory Medicine: Otherwise known as pulmonary medicine, is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases affecting the lungs. Pulmonary medicine deals with many diseases and conditions, including: ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, lung transplants, occupational lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis of the lungs, and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
OCT 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
At the end of 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China. As of September 2022, SARS-CoV...
SEP 28, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) For infectious disease pathogen detection, real-time PCR enables reliable, sensitive, specific, and scalable results...
SEP 13, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: September 13, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) An estimated 49 million cases of sepsis occur globally each year with approximately 11 million deaths...
AUG 18, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Learning Objectives Discuss evolving etiologies for Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Review the role of biomarkers in...
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:30 AM
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
MAY 04, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Neurological manifestations, including headache, altered mental status, and stroke, are a major complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and cor...
MAR 01, 2022 | 10:00 AM
Date: March 01, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CEST) The high mortality of COVID-19 is mostly attributed to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), whose histopathologic...
DEC 07, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: December 7, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than...
OCT 13, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
OCT 13, 2021 | 10:30 AM
By examining the host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection we gain valuable insights into viral pathogenesis and COVID-19 progression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small (18-22nt), non-coding...
SEP 16, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) For diagnostic testing, proper sample collection and transport play a pivotal role in the accurate and timely identification of a p...
SEP 14, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: Spetember 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with the developmen...
SEP 08, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Influenza viruses represent a significant burden to human health. In order to limit respiratory viral disease, new approaches that can prevent viral infection and spread are needed. We have...
JUN 29, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: June 29, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) The Unyvero Lower Respiratory Tract Panel demonstrated reliable concordance with culture based methods for organism identification from...
JUN 09, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: June 9, 2021 Time: 09 June 2021, 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 4pm CEST cells with dramatic implications on the validity of past cell culture related research. The fact that at least 509 cell lin...
MAY 26, 2021 | 8:00 AM
The increasing spread of variants across the globe raises questions about the effectiveness of existing programs to protect public health. Join Dr. Lauring, a researcher of virus mutations,...
MAY 11, 2021 | 10:00 AM
Date: May 11, 2021 Time: 10:00zm PDT Your samples are some of the most valuable assets in the laboratory. After spending countless hours on extraction and preparation, your conclusions could...