Pulmonology | European Federation of Internal Medicine

Pulmonology is the medical specialty dealing with disease involving the respiratory tract.[1] The term is derived from the Latinword pulmō, pulmonis ("lung") and the Greek -λογία, -logia. Pulmonology is synonymous with pneumology, from the Greekπνεύμων ("lung") and -λογία, -logia, respirology and respiratory medicine.

Planned Parenthood funding remains intact, attacks continue

Posted on: 02/10/2015 - 14:12

Planned Parenthood Federation of America has survived the latest attempt to cut its federal funding, but the organization isn’t out of the woods yet. On Sept. 30, the leadership of the House Energy...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

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Ask, listen, help: Pearls to treat sexual dysfunction in menopause

Posted on: 01/10/2015 - 19:58

LAS VEGAS – The first step is to ask. A menopausal woman may be struggling with a female sexual disorder (FSD), but unless her clinician asks, the patient may never volunteer information about her...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Product pipeline promising for STI, pregnancy prevention

Posted on: 30/09/2015 - 19:31

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Multipurpose technologies such as vaginal rings, gels, and new types of diaphragms have the potential to address a gap in products that can prevent both unwanted pregnancy and...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Link between bacterial vaginosis and STIs unclear

Posted on: 29/09/2015 - 22:40

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Evidence is building for a link between bacterial vaginosis and an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, but clinical trial data demonstrating that treating...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Evidence links common endocrine-disrupting chemicals to obesity, diabetes, reproductive disorders

Posted on: 28/09/2015 - 22:49

Cash register receipts, tin can linings, and a range of cosmetics and other common household products increasingly are implicated in the most intractable of society’s diseases such as obesity and...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Computer-aided detection fails to improve mammographic accuracy

Posted on: 28/09/2015 - 16:00

Augmenting digital screening mammography with computer-aided detection failed to improve diagnostic accuracy in every performance measure and every subgroup of women studied in a series of 625,625...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

ASCO: Many women with triple-negative breast cancer aren’t screened for BRCA

Posted on: 26/09/2015 - 20:43

SAN FRANCISCO – Many younger women diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancers do not get tested for BRCA, despite guideline recommendations, investigators report. Among 173 women with...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

ASCO: MRI improved breast cancer detection in average risk women

Posted on: 26/09/2015 - 16:56

SAN FRANCISCO – MRI-screening may improve the detection of biologically relevant breast cancer in women who are at average-risk, and reduce the interval-cancer rate down to 0%, at a low...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

ASCO: AIs reduce risk of contralateral breast cancer in patients with BRCA mutation

Posted on: 26/09/2015 - 16:29

SAN FRANCISCO – The use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in the adjuvant setting appears to delay the development of contralateral breast cancer, and this effect was particularly prevalent among breast...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Recall issued on U.S. Compounding sterile products

Posted on: 24/09/2015 - 22:48

U.S. Compounding Inc. is issuing a recall on all sterile products distributed between March 14, 2015, and Sept. 9, 2015, according to a safety alert from the Food and Drug Administration. The...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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