Investigating underlying causes of therapy-resistant respiratory symptoms, clinical researchers at the Firestone Institute ...

When people wake up with eye discharge in the morning, their hands naturally go up first. However, trying to remove eye ...

While boogers can potentially tell you something about your health, they're not a perfect diagnostic tool, and this myth is a ...

Harvard Medical School’s Emily S. Wan, MD, discusses mucus plugs in COPD, how to detect them, and what would make them a treatment target.

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A retrospective study of 1,989 clinical isolates in southern Taiwan found that adults with diabetes and HbA1c above 8.0 ...

Have you ever heard this during a day shift handover?“There is a lot of sputum, so I’m suctioning every two hours. SpO₂ is ...

Sputum is considered a noninvasive marker of airway inflammation, and its color is an indicator of bronchiectasis disease ...

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a leading cause of death affecting approximately 400 million people worldwide, yet there remains a patient population that continues to suffer from ...

Patient-reported sputum color is associated with neutrophil serine protease (NSP) activity and clinical disease activity in adults with bronchiectasis, according to a post hoc analysis of data from ...

Researchers evaluated the association between patient-reported sputum purulence and neutrophil serine protease activity. Treatment effectively reduced neutrophil serine protease activity and ...