Tag: Magazine
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Early COPD Linked to Childhood Asthma – MD Magazine
MD Magazine Early COPD Linked to Childhood AsthmaMD MagazineResearchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital examined nearly 700 COPD patients in order to track longitudinal measurements of growth and decline in lung function with persistent childhood asthma. The patients were between five and 12 years of age … View full post on asthma – Google News
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New Primary Care-Based Program Improves Pediatric Asthma Assessment and Treatment – MD Magazine
MD Magazine New Primary Care-Based Program Improves Pediatric Asthma Assessment and TreatmentMD MagazineThe 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. View full post on asthma – Google…
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Controlling childhood asthma: Study shows ‘mismatch’ between doctors’ instructions, parents’ understanding – Safety+Health magazine
Controlling childhood asthma: Study shows 'mismatch' between doctors' instructions, parents' understandingSafety+Health magazineBoston – A Harvard Medical School study of parents whose children have asthma shows roughly half do not know which type of asthma-control medication their child is taking and how often it should be used. The researchers surveyed the parents and health …Kids' Asthma Severity…
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Asthma Adds to COPD Risks – MD Magazine
MD Magazine Asthma Adds to COPD RisksMD MagazineChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients who also have asthma are at a greater risk for severe exacerbations according to a recent study. The researchers believe that exacerbation prevention strategies could be helpful for those patients.Propeller Collaboration with AMC Health Aims to Improve COPD Management, OutcomesCOPD News TodayEvolution:…
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Doctors are way overdiagnosing asthma – The Week Magazine
The Week Magazine Doctors are way overdiagnosing asthmaThe Week MagazineThere's a paradox here: As recently as the 1980s, asthma was underdiagnosed and undertreated, and in impoverished urban areas it still is, killing 3,630 people in the United States in 2013. Yet the prevalence of asthma more than doubled from the 1980s … View full post…
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Adult-Onset Asthma: Are You at Risk? – Healthy Magazine
Healthy Magazine Adult-Onset Asthma: Are You at Risk?Healthy MagazineAsthma is often thought of as a condition that mainly affects children, like chicken pox. While many people first develop asthma during childhood, the signs and symptoms of asthma can actually pop up at any point during your life. Symptoms can appear …Asthma Triggers To Avoid This…
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FDA Approves Teva’s Cinqair for the Treatment of Severe Asthma – Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine (press release) (blog)
Lung Disease News FDA Approves Teva's Cinqair for the Treatment of Severe AsthmaPharmaceutical Technology Magazine (press release) (blog)FDA approved Teva Pharmaceutical's Cinqair (reslizumab) on March 23, 2016 for use with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of severe asthma in patients 18 years and older. Cinqair is approved for patients who have a history…
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COPD and Asthma Symptomatic Overlap – MD Magazine
MD Magazine COPD and Asthma Symptomatic OverlapMD MagazineSmokers and nonsmokers with chronic asthma share symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), likely due to small airway remodeling, suggest findings published in the journal Chest. The concurrent disease is often referred to as asthma … View full post on asthma – Google News
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Infants’ Risk of Asthma Depends on Gut Microbiome – MD Magazine
MD Magazine Infants' Risk of Asthma Depends on Gut MicrobiomeMD MagazineThe researchers noted that in animal models, gut microbiota had been implicated in the development of asthma, but they wanted to examine whether this would hold true in human models. Babies from more than 300 families in Canada participated in the … View full post on…
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Q&A With Stanley Fineman From Atlanta Allergy & Asthma: Guiding Doctors And … – MD Magazine
MD Magazine Q&A With Stanley Fineman From Atlanta Allergy & Asthma: Guiding Doctors And …MD MagazineStanley Fineman, MD, MBA, from Atlanta Allergy & Asthma discussed the best ways for doctors to approach the subject and what patients shuld know about the new sublingual immunotherapy options during the annual meeting of the American College of …and more »…