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ABC30.com |
New Asthma Drug Stops Attacks
ABC30.com Imagine struggling to fill your lungs with air and with each breath, feeling like you're suffocating. That's what happens to more than 18-million Americans who suffer from asthma. Medications, shots, inhalers and steroids help most people keep it under … |
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Ledger Gazette |
US FDA Approves GSK Asthma Drug
ObserverLeader.com (blog) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to the use of mepolizumab (produced under the name Nucala by GlaxoSmithKline) as treatment in severe cases of asthma for patients of 12 years or older with an eosinophilic phenotype. FDA approves Mepolizumab for maintenance treatment of severe asthma Nucala approved to treat severe asthma Nucala: FDA Approves GSK Drug for Severe Asthma |
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KRQE News 13 |
Glaxo wins US approval for drug to treat severe asthma
KRQE News 13 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an injectable drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC to treat severe asthma attacks. The agency cleared Nucala for patients 12 years and older who cannot control their asthma with … |
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Merck's stock falls after disclosing government probe into asthma drug pricing
MarketWatch Merck & Co. Inc.'s stock dropped 1.5% in midday trade Friday, after the drug maker disclosed in a filing late Thursday that it had received a civil investigative demand from the U.S. Attorney's office. The demand requests information related to the … |
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Drug Combats Severe Asthma
Newsmax "This approval offers patients with severe asthma an additional therapy when current treatments cannot maintain adequate control of their asthma," Dr. Badrul Chowdhury, director of the FDA's pulmonary, allergy and rheumatology products division, said … |
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Asthma drug appears to rejuvenate elderly brains, rodent study finds
ScienceAlert New research in rats has shown that a cheap drug used to prevent asthma attacks could also help our brains to fight the symptoms of old age – including memory loss, inflammation, and loss of cognitive performance. The drug, known as montelukast, was … |
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Asthma Drug Improves Learning And Memory
The Biological SCENE A drug that prevents airway inflammation and constriction in asthmatics can improve learning and memory in old rats, according to a study (Nat. Commun. 2015, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9466). The findings suggest that the compound, or related ones, could … |
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ChristianToday |
Asthma drug a potential treatment for aging brains, according to new study
ChristianToday A new study has found that a drug originally intended for the management of asthma attacks has been found to rejuvenate the aging brain. The study, conducted by researchers at Paracelsus Medical University in Austria and published in Nature … Affordable asthma medicine to treat dementia |
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ZME Science |
Asthma drug reverses aging in the brain of mice
ZME Science Working with mice, the researchers gave some of the elderly rodents a common drug called Montelukast that's used to treat asthma in children. To everyone surprise, the old rats started growing new brain cells and performed almost as well as the young … Asthma drug could rejuvenate ageing brains, study suggests Asthma drug found to rejuvenate older rat brains Old rat brains rejuvenated and new neurons grown by asthma drug |
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Medical Xpress |
Asthma drug found to rejuvenate older rat brains
Medical Xpress (Medical Xpress)—A European team of researchers working in Austria has found that a drug commonly prescribed to treat asthma can lead to rejuvenation in an older rat brain. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group … Asthma drug could rejuvenate ageing brains, study suggests Allergy and Asthma drug Singulair rejuvenates neurons and learning in older … Asthma drug Singulair may be a cure for Alzheimer's, claims study |
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