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Early COPD Linked to Childhood Asthma
MD Magazine Researchers 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 … |
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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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Controlling childhood asthma: Study shows 'mismatch' between doctors' instructions, parents' understanding
Safety+Health magazine Boston – 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 Under-Recognized & Undertreated at Routine Healthcare Visits |
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Asthma Adds to COPD Risks
MD Magazine Chronic 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, Outcomes Evolution: Yearning to breathe free |
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The Week Magazine |
Doctors are way overdiagnosing asthma
The Week Magazine There'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 … |
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Healthy Magazine |
Adult-Onset Asthma: Are You at Risk?
Healthy Magazine Asthma 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 Spring Asthma Survey Reports Most Patients Think Disease Is Controlled, but It's Not Suffering seasonal allergies, Boise? Cottonwood is likely culprit |
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Lung Disease News |
FDA Approves Teva's Cinqair for the Treatment of Severe Asthma
Pharmaceutical 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 of severe … FDA Approves Teva's Asthma Drug Cinqair as Add-on Treatment Nucala and Cinqair for the Treatment of Severe Asthma |
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COPD and Asthma Symptomatic Overlap
MD Magazine Smokers 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 … |
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Infants' Risk of Asthma Depends on Gut Microbiome
MD Magazine The 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 … |
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Q&A With Stanley Fineman From Atlanta Allergy & Asthma: Guiding Doctors And …
MD Magazine Stanley 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 … |
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