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Air Pollution Boosts a Child's Chance of Getting Cockroach-Related Asthma
PBS NewsHour (blog) Cockroach allergens are a major contributor to asthma, particularly in urban areas. Photo by Luis Davilla/Cover/Getty Images. In New York City's East Harlem, a startling 19 percent of 5-year-olds have asthma, according to a report from the New York … Pulmonary & Allergy Update highlights insights and advances |
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GlaxoSmithKline Boosts Stake In Theravance To 27%
RTT News The move is said to be on the potential success of asthma drug Relovair, which is believed to be the successor of Seretide/Advair that logged sales of roughly $8.1 billion in 2011. Relovair is developed by Theravance and GlaxoSmithKline and is a … GlaxoSmithKline to Increase Its Ownership in Theravance Glaxo Lifts Theravance Stake GlaxoSmithKline invests $213M in Theravance Inc. |
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GlaxoSmithKline Boosts Stake In Theravance To 27%
NASDAQ The move is said to be on the potential success of asthma drug Relovair, which is believed to be the successor of Seretide/Advair that logged sales of roughly $8.1 billion in 2011. Relovair is developed by Theravance and GlaxoSmithKline and is a … GlaxoSmithKline to Increase Its Ownership in Theravance GlaxoSmithKline invests $213M in Theravance Inc. Glaxo Lifts Theravance Stake |
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Asthmatic mothers encouraged to breastfeed without fear as it boosts baby's …
News-Medical.net Children whose moms had asthma and were breastfed for four months or longer also performed better in tests measuring lung capacity, suggesting breastfeeding could lower the risk of asthma. The findings appear to contradict several earlier studies that … |
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The asthma drug that boosts failing hearts by helping it to pump faster
Daily Mail A drug used to treat asthma may be a new way to tackle heart failure. It works by boosting the heart's action, helping it pump faster. About 900000 Britons — most of them older people — suffer from heart failure, with the condition more … |
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Simple School Program Boosts Asthma Control
MedPage Today Just having school nurses watch children take their daily asthma-control medications significantly reduced symptom flares, a randomized trial showed. Moreover, the four-month program was also effective for … |
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Meta-Analyses Indicate Asthma Boosts Lung Cancer Risk
Internal Medicine News Digital Network DENVER — Asthma may be a risk factor for lung cancer, according to two new meta-analyses. The public health implications of such an association would be … |
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Study shows use of corticosteroid inhalers boosts risk of diabetes
Montreal Gazette Inhaled steroids have become the mainstay of medical treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the new name for emphysema and … Inhaled steroids may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes Inhaled steroids increase diabetes risk, say Lady Davis Institute researchers |
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A clinical trial in Cambodia has found it possible to prolong the survival of untreated HIV-infected adults with very weak immune systems and newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) by starting anti-HIV therapy two weeks after beginning TB treatment, rather than waiting eight weeks, as has been standard. This finding by scientists co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, brings physicians closer to optimizing the treatment of severely immunosuppressed individuals with HIV-TB co-infection. The findings were presented today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna by principal investigators Francois-Xavier Blanc, M.D., Anne E. Goldfeld, M.D., and Sok Thim, M.D.
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UQ Physics boosts the signal
(PhysOrg.com) — University of Queensland physicists have demonstrated a novel solution to the problem of information degradation when amplifying signals at the quantum information level.
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