Paid Sick Leave Means More People Get Screened for Cancer
Sick leave coverage expansion were associated with higher rates of mammography screening and colorectal screening, potentially leading to better health outcomes.
University of California San Francisco
Respiratory viral infections pose significant morbidity and mortality to patients with chronic lung diseases like emphysema and COPD, causing exacerbations that drive destruction of normal lung tissue, and leading to one of the most common diagnoses for hospital admissions.
UC San Francisco researchers have uncovered a surprising role for fibroblasts in the lungs in activating T cell inflammation that drives lung destruction in COPD exacerbation triggered by viral infection. They also identified a T cell subset that can be targeted to treat COPD exacerbations.