While a strong immune response is essential to fight against viral infection, an immune system that continues to stay active long after the virus has been cleared can lead to lung damage.
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Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
This is not an alternative to traditional disease surveillance, but a complementary tool.
Exercise might be the last thing on your mind if you’re at home with COVID. But these gentle breathing exercises can help.
ECMO uses an artificial heart and lung to replace the entire function of the person’s own heart and lungs outside the body. And COVID is demanding more ECMO than we’ve ever used before.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
Most e-liquids we studied contained chemicals known to cause respiratory issues and lung damage when inhaled.
COVID has shown us we can develop a range of safe and effective vaccines. Now we need to do the same for TB.
The inability to curb road accidents in Ghana is tied to colonial and neocolonial legacies.
Digital participatory surveillance allows the community to share in the responsibility of disease surveillance and contribute to the control and prevention of respiratory disease outbreaks.
Staff and customers with underlying health conditions are likely to be most at risk at drive-through windows.
Proto-medicines which activated “free fatty acid receptor 4” were able to relax the lungs and airways in both mice and human lung tissue samples.
A century ago, Australians were battling another pandemic, tuberculosis, with public health measures many will find familiar today.
France says one metre, Spain says two. But what really constitutes a safe distance when it comes to COVID-19?
This winter, the field of respiratory viruses will be crowded.
It causes fever, a dry cough, shortness of breath. Outbreaks are frequently deadly. It’s not COVID-19, and it could be waiting in your workplace after lockdown.
Some of the worst health performers in recent weeks have been ‘First World’.
As lockdowns have came into effect around the world, air pollution has plummeted.
The Tubeho Neza programme has showed that it is possible to provide interventions against major diseases to vulnerable households.
Traffic congestion causes more problems than just being stuck in traffic. There are real effects on the health, quality of life and wallets of taxpayers.
Top contributors
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Research Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Data Manager, Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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David King is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Queensland
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Medical Epidemiologist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Health Science, Curtin University
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Respiratory, sleep and general physician and conjoint lecturer in medicine, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of Experimental Studies Medicine, Imperial College London
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Global Public Health, University of York
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Professor, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor and Head of Respiratory Environmental Health, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Adelaide University