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Nurse-Initiated Steroids Improve Pediatric Asthma Care
Clinical Advisor HealthDay News — Nurse initiation of oral corticosteroids before physician assessment of pediatric patients with asthma improves quality and efficiency of care provided in the pediatric ED, study data show. Children with moderate-to-severe acute … |
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Obese children with asthma need higher corticosteroid doses
Clinical Advisor HealthDay News — Overweight and obese children with asthma do not respond as well to corticosteroids as normal weight children and require higher daily doses of the medication, study data presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of … AAAAI: Corticosteroid Response in Asthma Impacted by BMI Heavy Kids May Not Respond as Well to Asthma Meds |
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Heavy soda drinking linked to lung disease
Clinical Advisor Participants who drank at least half a liter of soda per day were more than twice as likely to develop asthma or COPD than those who consumed no soft drinks at all (odds ratio=2.33; 95% C: 1.51-3.60), Zumin Shi, MD, PhD, from the University of Adelaide … Lung problems made worse by soft drinks |
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Nurse Advisor – Asthma
Pharma Times As Nurse Advisor you will contribute to the development and provision of a high quality nursing service for people with Asthma in conjunction with healthcare professionals across primary care. You will act as a support to healthcare professionals and … |
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Proton-pump inhibitors overused for non-GERD pediatric asthma
Clinical Advisor HealthDay News — For children with poorly controlled asthma who do not have overt gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), treatment with the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) lansoprazole is not associated with improved asthma control, study results … |
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Managing pediatric asthma
Clinical Advisor Asthma, a chronic lung disease that affects more than seven million children under the age of 18, occurs when lung inflammation causes the airways to narrow, triggering symptoms including wheezing, breathlessness, tightening in the chest and coughing. … |
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Power of placebo evident in asthma treatment
Clinical Advisor After being treated with a placebo inhaler or sham acupuncture, asthma patients reported significantly greater improvement in symptoms than they felt after receiving no treatment — and this improvement was similar to that reported after active … |
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Sunlight can help kids avoid asthma
Clinical Advisor Summertime may become even more youth-friendly with the recent discovery that the vitamin D produced from sun exposure plays a role in protecting against childhood asthma. Researchers evaluated data from 45000 schoolchildren in nine cities throughout … |
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Asthma benefit of GERD drugs too small
Clinical Advisor The controversial practice of using proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to improve asthma control has been dealt another blow by the results of a recent literature review. An analysis of 11 published trials involving 2524 patients indicates that although PPI … |
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Anti-leukotrienes equivalent to standard asthma care
Clinical Advisor Leukotriene-receptor antagonists were just as effective as inhaled glucocorticoids as first-line controller and add-on asthma therapy in a diverse primary care patient population, results from two “real-life” trials indicate. … Leukotriene antagonist pills 'preferred by asthma patients' Asthma pills may work just as well as inhalers in the real world Asthma pills as good as inhaler: study |
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