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.

Study suggests mammography results in ‘widespread overdiagnosis’

Posted on: 06/07/2015 - 17:14

In regions where more women undergo screening mammography, the detection of small cancers increases but mortality doesn’t change significantly, compared with regions where fewer women have the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Age drives miscarriage risk in RA patients

Posted on: 02/07/2015 - 17:01

LISBON – Advanced age appears to trump disease activity or antirheumatic drug treatment as the driving force behind miscarriage in women with rheumatoid arthritis. “The risk for miscarriage in...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Cochrane review finds midurethral slings safe, effective

Posted on: 01/07/2015 - 19:58

Midurethral sling operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are safe, and – regardless of the routes traversed – are highly effective in the short and mid term, according to a new Cochrane...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

GnRH-antagonist protocol trims ovarian hyperstimulation

Posted on: 30/06/2015 - 13:49

LISBON – Women undergoing assisted reproduction had similar pregnancy rates with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and antagonist protocols, but less ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome with the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Sexually transmitted infections missed as UTIs are overdiagnosed

Posted on: 26/06/2015 - 18:54

Women may be receiving unnecessary antibiotics for overdiagnosed urinary tract infections while their sexually transmitted infections go undetected, according to a recent study in an urban academic...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Counseling key to guiding rheumatic disease treatment during pregnancy

Posted on: 25/06/2015 - 16:49

ROME – New therapies introduced over the past 15 years have vastly improved the lives of patients with rheumatic diseases but are also creating complex treatment scenarios as more female patients...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

EULAR: Anti-TNF therapy carriers low congenital malformation risk

Posted on: 24/06/2015 - 13:09

ROME – Reassuring new data from the German biologics registry RABBIT presented at the European Congress of Rheumatology indicate that exposure to biologic therapies around the time of conception does...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

FDA advisors urge physician certification for flibanserin

Posted on: 23/06/2015 - 19:24

Without the option of recommending physician certification as a condition for flibanserin approval, the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel vote might have shifted against approval of the...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Pregnancy outcomes better than expected in SLE

Posted on: 22/06/2015 - 22:00

Pregnancy outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus were better than expected in the largest study of the issue to date, according to a report published online June 22 in Annals of Internal...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

EULAR: Women with RA have increased cervical neoplasia rates

Posted on: 18/06/2015 - 17:30

ROME – Women with rheumatoid arthritis who have never been treated with a biologic drug had a modest but statistically significant increased rate of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

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