Respiratory News Novartis Pharma has launched oncedaily Ultibro Inhalation Capsules in Japan. The new medication will be for relief of various symptoms due to COPD airway obstruction by combining the proven benefits and safety profiles of two established Novartis treatments, the longacting bronchodilator, Onbrez Inhalation Capsules (indacaterol), and the longacting muscarinic antagonist, Seebri…
Seven Great Tips to Better Enjoy Your Holidays! Jane Martin RRT from the COPD Foundation wishes you a happy and stressfree holiday with these tips: Prioritize: It is okay to turn down an invitation or Which events do you really want to attend, and which ones are actually more an obligation to make…
Product News New Products Philips Respironics has introduced the SimplyFlo Stationary Oxygen Concentrator. If it looks familiar it is basically the SimplyGo, their portable oxygen concentrator (POC), without the batteries. This will be a convenient option for people who use oxygen only at night, that will make them totally independent when traveling or…
Sharing the Health I use an LEDtype night light that I plug it into an electrical strip and put under my bed. It puts out a soft light on the floor all around the bed so I can see where I am stepping and find my slippers during the night. It goes off in the…
Fibrosis File Exciting New IPF Research! Reporting in Modern Pathology, Ohio State University researchers have found Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) might be caused by a virus. Evidence of the pathogen, herpesvirus saimiri, was found in all tissue samples from patients with IPF, but in none of those from patients with fibrosis with a…
Ask Mark … Corrine has Interstitial Lung Disease and asks if taking predni sone would be of help to her. Mark says, Interstitial Lung Disease is thankfully a slow progressing disease. The problem is that it affects oxygenation pretty significantly and does not have much in the way of curative medications available to…
Options Available for Oxygen Users This article is a summary of the content Ryan Diesem provided during the COPD Experience seminar held in Las Vegas, NV, on November 7. You can find an electronic version of his presentation online at www.inspiredrc.com. The Basics of O2 Prescription of oxygen therapy is meant to help…
Calling Dr. Bauer Dear Dr. Bauer, I’ve been hospitalized with two COPD exacerbation events. I was treated with antibiotics. Antibiotics are ineffectual against viral infections, are there no drugs to combat viruses? Jerry D. You ask a very good question about the cause and treatment of pulmonary infections in those with underlying lung disease.…
Great Gift Ideas from Pulmonary Paper Besides a membership to the Pulmonary Paper for everyone on your list, we would like to highly recommend a new book for oxygen users by our friend, John Goodman, RRT. With both personal and professional experience with liv ing with oxygen and lung disease, John has a…
A COPD Chistmas Valerie McLeod from McLaren Regional Medical Center’s successful pulmonary rehabilitation program in Flint, Michigan, requested that we reprint this poem written by the late Jim Phillips of the Wheezenpuffs. Happy Holidays to all! T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, ’cept me…