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Medical News | Medical Articles: World Asthma Day: How climate change is increasing cases of asthma

	May 7, 2019
	Respiratory Diseases
	The latest respiratory diseases news from News Medical

Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment Using FeNO Breath Testing

Worldwide approximately 339 million people are afflicted with asthma, with asthma-related mortality affecting 3 families each day. Staggeringly, two thirds of these deaths are avoidable. Insufficient treatment, inadequate management and diagnostic issues each contribute to asthma related mortality. Even today, up to 30% of asthma patients are wrongly diagnosed, not receiving the care they require to manage their disorder as a consequence. FeNO breath analysis for diagnostics and monitoring has recently been added to the NICE guidelines yet healthcare professionals have been reluctant to use FeNO measurements. Learn how FeNO testing can be implemented to improve diagnosis and monitoring of asthma.

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	Innovative wearable technology will detect breathing problems in infants An innovative wearable sensor to monitor new-born babies in poor areas is being developed by Anglia Ruskin University, in collaboration with experts in Jordan.

	Deep-learning model better predicts survival outcomes for lung cancer A deep-learning model developed using serial image scans of tumors from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) predicted treatment response and survival outcomes better than standard clinical parameters.

	Researchers engineer new molecules to help stop lung cancer University of Texas at Dallas scientists have demonstrated that the growth rate of the majority of lung cancer cells relates directly to the availability of a crucial oxygen-metabolizing molecule.

	Non-smokers who develop lung cancer are hugely disadvantaged, says PHE Patients who do not smoke are at an increased risk of lung cancer due to air pollution, warns PHE. These patients are often overlooked and diagnosed late, with poor outcomes.