
New treatment for children with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) affects hundreds of thousands of people each year, many of them children. Now, a recent study investigates the effects of a new steroid treatment on children suffering from ARDS. Ref. Source 4c.
The high cost of surviving acute respiratory distress syndrome
Nearly half of previously employed adult survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome were jobless one year after hospital discharge, and are estimated to have lost an average of $27,000 in earnings, new research concludes. Ref. Source 3x.