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You Docs: Take asthma meds to prevent severe attacks
Toronto Star Taking asthma drugs correctly doesn't happen often enough. Hard new evidence confirms what docs have known all along: Many frightening or fatal attacks result from people not taking their meds, or not taking them right, or not using them enough — even … |
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Breaking: Sunovion axes sales reps for asthma meds in consolidation move
FiercePharma The company is consolidating its national respiratory sales organization, laying off a number of reps to streamline how it promotes its allergy and asthma drugs, according to an emailed statement provided to FiercePharma by the drugmaker's vice … Sunovion to lay off drug reps, reportedly by the hundreds |
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Pediatricians Want ED Docs to Start Asthma Control Meds
Medscape October 18, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) — Pediatricians strongly support the recommendation that emergency department (ED) physicians start asthma controller medications during an acute visit to the ED, according to research presented here at the … |
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Use of Asthma Controller Meds on the Rise Among US Kids
Pharmaceutical Processing According to a report from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the percentage of children with asthma in the United States who use a prescription "controller" medicine has nearly doubled since the late 1990s, as reported Thursday in … Pediatric Asthma Drug Prescriptions on the Upswing |
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) — The percentage of children
with asthma in the United States who use a prescription “controller”
medicine has nearly doubled since the late 1990s, a new federal government
report finds.
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Use of Asthma Controller Meds on the Rise Among U.S. Kids
U.S. News & World Report THURSDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) — The percentage of children with asthma in the United States who use a prescription "controller" medicine has nearly doubled since the late 1990s, a new federal government report finds. The analysis of data from the … |
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Poor Children Don't Get Asthma Meds after ER Visit
ThirdAge Children from low-income homes are less likely to be prescribed medication when they visit the emergency room with an asthma attack, a new study shows. According to Reuters Health, only a minority low-income South Carolina children started preventive … Smarter ER treatment of asthma needed |
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Few poor kids get asthma meds after ER visit
Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When low-income children end up in the ER with an asthma attack, few are prescribed the medication needed to prevent further attacks, a study of South Carolina children suggests. … |
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Many teens unaware of meds risks
Irish Health They also take a range of other drugs to deal with health problems such as asthma, stomach aches and sleeping problems. However, while most young people will use these medicines in the correct manner, 'there is evidence of accidental or intentional … Pharmacists need to provide better information to teenagers on risks and … |
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Officials Consider Prescriptions to Keep Meds Away From Meth Users
Patch.com Joy Krieger, executive director for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, St. Louis Chapter, told council members that ephedrine or pseudoephedrine is the preferred medication to treat sinus or colds for those who have asthma. … Prescriptions to be required in Franklin County for pseudoephedrine |
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