AIR POLLUTION: EPA foes turned asthma study into weapon for ozone fight – Environment & Energy Publishing

AIR POLLUTION: EPA foes turned asthma study into weapon for ozone fight
Environment & Energy Publishing
When a Johns Hopkins University researcher published a study showing race and income as risk factors for asthma, she started getting phone calls from industry groups opposing U.S. EPA's bid to tighten the national ozone standard. Dr. Corinne Keet said …

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Police Log: Someone spraying stuff into caller’s home to give her asthma attack – NRToday.com

Police Log: Someone spraying stuff into caller's home to give her asthma attack
NRToday.com
3:03 a.m. — Caller reports suspicious person peeking in his or her windows, walking around the house and spraying stuff to give caller asthma attacks in the 300 block of Surprise Avenue, Canyonville. 3:13 a.m. — Intoxicated man reportedly crawled

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UK Biotech Circassia Moves Into Asthma With Two Acquisitions – Wall Street Journal (blog)


Wall Street Journal (blog)

UK Biotech Circassia Moves Into Asthma With Two Acquisitions
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Allergy and asthma are natural bedfellows: That's the rationale behind Circassia Pharmaceuticals PLC's acquisition spree announced Friday. The Oxford, England, biotech, which is developing vaccines for a range of allergies, has bought Swedish-listed …
UK's Circassia buys two asthma-focused firms for up to $377 millionReuters
Circassia Pharma buys two asthma-focussed companiesReuters UK
Circassia In Share Sale To Fund GBP239 Million In Acquisitions (ALLISS)London South East
Proactive Investors UK –Insider Media –Stock Market Wire
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Genetic Mutations in Asthma Come into Question – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Genetic Mutations in Asthma Come into Question
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Estimates of heritability for asthma sufferers would suggest that nearly half of the variation in risk can be attributed to some type of genetic factor. However, common genetic variants that have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS
Rare mutations do not explain 'missing heritability' in asthmaMedical Xpress
Rare mutations do not explain "missing heritability" in asthmaHealthCanal.com

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Link between antibiotics and childhood asthma called into question – Medical News Today


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Link between antibiotics and childhood asthma called into question
Medical News Today
Several studies have demonstrated a link between maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy or early childhood antibiotic use and increased risk of the child developing asthma. Though such studies have led to general belief of a causal link, researchers
Causal link between antibiotics and childhood asthma dismissedMedical Xpress

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Promising asthma trial prompts Regeneron, Sanofi to push dupilumab into PhIII – FierceBiotech


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Promising asthma trial prompts Regeneron, Sanofi to push dupilumab into PhIII
FierceBiotech
Regeneron and its close partner Sanofi have cleared the final mid-stage hurdle for dupilumab in asthma patients, with several doses hitting the trial endpoint both for a subset of patients as well as the broad population. And the ambitious development
Sanofi's dual-action biotech asthma drug performs well in testReuters
Positive results for Sanofi/Regeneron's dupilumab in asthmaThe Pharma Letter

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