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Active asthma may significantly raise risk of heart attack
HealthCanal.com CHICAGO — Recent asthma symptoms or asthma that requires daily medication may significantly raise the risk of heart attack, according to two research papers presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014. “Physicians should do … |
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Asthma patients to docs: Can we talk about cost?
HealthCanal.com ANN ARBOR—Asthma patients concerned about their ability to pay for medical care would like to talk about cost-related concerns with their physicians but often don't get that opportunity, say researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public … |
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Asthma Risk Varies with Ethnic Ancestry Among Latinos, UCSF Team Finds
HealthCanal.com Native American ancestry is associated with a lower asthma risk, but African ancestry is associated with a higher risk, according to the largest-ever study of how genetic variation influences asthma risk in Latinos, in whom both African and Native … |
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New asthma therapy
HealthCanal.com The international Phase 2 trial of a synthetic anti-viral 'interferon', inhaled via a nebuliser, proved most effective in helping patients with more difficult asthma when they developed a virus or cold-induced attack. Interferons are proteins that … |
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New drugs to combat asthma and the like
HealthCanal.com Statistics indicate that there are 300 million asthma sufferers worldwide, a further 600 million people living with chronic pneumonia and up to 30% of the global population contending with allergic rhinitis (allergic inflammation of the nasal airways … |
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New study investigating impact of asthma on school children launches today
HealthCanal.com Asthma affects one in 11 children and young people in the UK. On average, this is two children in every classroom. Today scientists in East London are launching a new study to measure the impact asthma has on school children, with the aim of improving … |
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Queen Mary University of London launches ground-breaking asthma research …
HealthCanal.com Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), along with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and the charity Asthma UK, have today launched the UK's first integrated Centre focused solely on improving the quality of life of people with asthma. New asthma centre aims to cut development time for treatments Asthma UK research centre to be based in Edinburgh Ground-breaking research Centre set to revolutionise asthma care for 5.4m people |
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Goal: Alert Houston children with asthma about air danger
HealthCanal.com Rice University researchers, with support from Houston Endowment, will develop a system to warn schoolchildren who have asthma about changing air quality up to three days in advance of increased airborne risks. Rice statistician Katherine Ensor, Rice … |
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he Nose Knows in Asthma
HealthCanal.com It has become increasingly clear in recent years that asthma comes in several variations, with different causes, different pathologies and different responses to therapy. These subtypes of asthma can be identified by knowing which genes are expressed … |
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UI Health leads trial to help kids with asthma
HealthCanal.com The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System has been awarded a $4 million, three-year contract by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to coordinate a multi-center trial to investigate treatments for uncontrolled asthma in … National Asthma guidelines for PHCs launched |
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