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New Primary Care-Based Program Improves Pediatric Asthma Assessment and Treatment
MD Magazine The research team used the Expert Panel Report 3 (EPR-3): Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, and requested that clinicians ask patients five standardized questions regarding their asthma symptoms and use of rescue medication. |
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Reslizumab improves asthma control, symptoms, lung function
Healio “Intravenous reslizumab [Cinqair, Teva Respiratory] 3.0 mg/kg provided improvements in lung function, asthma symptoms, and quality of life for patients with inadequately controlled asthma and elevated blood eosinophils (? 400 cells/µL) that were … |
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Dignity Health Improves Asthma Outcomes with Use of Digital Health Technology
Business Wire (press release) SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health care systems, announced results from a randomized controlled study which demonstrated that the use of digital health technology improved asthma control. The study … |
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As smog reduces, condition of children suffering from asthma improves
Dispatch Tribunal Pollution levels and condition of children suffering from asthma can now be linked directly and strongly, a new study by University of Southern California has shown. Researchers at the university established that over the 20-years when pollution levels … When Air Quality Improves, So Do Kids' Asthma Symptoms SMOG STUDY: Fewer bad air days for asthmatics, other children California Children, Latinos Breathing Improved With Less Air Pollution Last 20 Years |
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MedPage Today |
When Air Quality Improves, So Do Kids' Asthma Symptoms
MedPage Today Declining levels of air pollution in Southern California were linked to reduced rates of asthma and other respiratory conditions in children, a small longitudinal study showed. Reductions in ambient air pollution over the course of 20 years were … SMOG STUDY: Fewer bad air days for asthmatics, other children Study finds link between low pollution levels and stronger lungs in California kids Air pollution study shows children got healthier as the air got cleaner |
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Bronchial thermoplasty improves asthma regardless of socioeconomic status American College of Chest Physicians
EurekAlert (press release) Shanghai (April 11, 2016)–Among people with asthma, lower socioeconomic status, education level, and ethnic minority status clearly have undesirable effects on their care and outcomes. Patients with severe disease who attend county (public) hospitals … |
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Bronchial thermoplasty improves asthma regardless of socioeconomic status
Medical Xpress Among people with asthma, lower socioeconomic status, education level, and ethnic minority status clearly have undesirable effects on their care and outcomes. Patients with severe disease who attend county (public) hospitals in the United States tend … |
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Small airway-on-a-chip improves study of human COPD and asthma
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences A research team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human … Modeling COPD and asthma in a human small airway-on-a-chip |
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Home-based educational intervention improves asthma among Hispanic children
EurekAlert (press release) New Rochelle, NY, November 10, 2015–Significant improvements in frequency of asthma attacks and symptoms, hospitalization rates and acute care visits, quality of life, and asthma knowledge were reported among a largely Hispanic population with a high … |
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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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