The most common way to assess lung age is through a spirometry test. In this procedure, a person takes a deep breath and then ...

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have been working on a test procedure for grid-forming inverters. The GFM Benchmark project has seen Fraunhofer work with four ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

My recent pulmonary function test (PFT) results indicated a decline in all the areas it measured. That’s not unusual for me. In the spring, my PFT numbers had declined, as well, leading to a diagnosis ...

Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...

Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, advocating against the ...

Significant gaps persist, however, in the implementation of race-neutral PFT equations in the United States and worldwide, because race has long been embedded in PFT interpretation. Moreover, the ...

Yes, it is possible for a person with cirrhosis to receive typical liver function test results, although this is rare. The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) notes that liver function ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by Justice Sonia ...

Evaluation for pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with cancer must include either lung ventilation/perfusion scan or dual-energy computed tomography of the chest to evaluate for acute and/or ...