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Vitamin D Didn't Improve Asthma
dailyRx According to a new study, adults with asthma who were given vitamin D3, along with their normal prescription medications for treating the disease, did not find that their symptoms improved. "Ask your doctor about curbing asthma symptoms." This new … |
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Antibody Decreased Asthma Response
dailyRx (dailyRx News) Getting to the root of the cause of asthma may help develop more effective treatments. A new drug has targeted one of those possible causes. Cytokines—small proteins that are excreted from cells that tell other cells what to do—may be … |
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Secondhand Smoke Can Hurt Kids With Asthma More
dailyRx Yoshiki Kobayashi, MD, from the Airway Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London in England, led a team of researchers who investigated how passive smoking affected children's response to their asthma … |
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Swapping Out Asthma Attack Meds
dailyRx This study, led by Grant E. Keeney, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, looked at the effectiveness of using dexamethasone to treat severe asthma attacks in children. More commonly, severe asthma attacks … |
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Where There's Smoke and Asthma
dailyRx A recent study found that children with asthma or wheezing were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within a year of a first admission if they had been exposed to tobacco smoke. The exposure was measured based on a tobacco ingredient's … |
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Breathing Easier While Growing Up
dailyRx This study, led by Martin Andersson, MD, of the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå University in Sweden, looked at how many kids with asthma went into remission. Going into remission means that the children are no longer asthmatic. |
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The Traffic Wheeze
dailyRx Laura Perez, MD, at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues set out to estimate the number of childhood asthma cases that might have been caused by air pollution in 10 European cities. To carry out their … |
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Mask Your Kid's Asthma
dailyRx A new study was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting that tested whether sleeping masks could reduce allergic reactions in children with asthma. Researchers followed 31 children with asthma who slept … |
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From Wheeze to Clot
dailyRx Christof J. Majoor, MD, of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues wanted to find out whether people with moderate or severe asthma had an increased risk of developing deep … |
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Quick Fix Isn't Best Fix for Asthma
dailyRx A recent small study discovered that frequent users of "quick fix" short-acting bronchodilators knew they had poor control of their asthma but used the short-acting option because it was a fast, effective and cheap method to get them back to their busy … |
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