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LINX®, a Novel Treatment for Patients With Refractory Asthma Complicated by Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Medscape Background: Gastroesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common comorbidities in patients with asthma. Gastroesophageal reflux disease can be linked to difficult-to-control asthma. Current management includes gastric acid suppression therapy and … |
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Worldwide Trends in Incidence in Occupational Allergy and Asthma
Medscape Occupational allergies and asthma (OAA) are particularly amenable to surveillance because of the availability of diagnostic tests and methods to identify the causal agent and confirm the work-relatedness, for example patch or specific inhalation … |
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Persistent Childhood Asthma Linked to Early COPD
Medscape Persistent childhood asthma may be linked to earlier development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to results from the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) study published in the May 12 issue of the New England … Persistent childhood asthma linked to COPD Persistent childhood asthma can trigger lung disease Severe Asthma in Childhood Linked to COPD Risk Later |
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Help Patients With Asthma Use Inhalers the Right Way
Medscape Hello. I am Dr Joy Hsu, with CDC's National Asthma Control Program. I am speaking to you as part of the CDC Expert Commentary Series on Medscape. I would like to discuss the CDC response to clinicians' requests for tools to help their patients with … Yes, asthma is over-diagnosed, but it is still a matter of life or death |
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Specialists Say Childhood Asthma Is Overdiagnosed
Medscape In an article published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, two respiratory specialists claim that doctors are overdiagnosing asthma in children, with inhalers being prescribed needlessly. According to Asthma UK, 1.1 million children … Asthma inhalers given out almost as a 'fashion accessory', experts warn Are doctors overdiagnosing asthma? Asthma inhalers handed out like fashion accessories, doctors warn |
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Update on Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Asthma
Medscape We must overcome the disputes of subcutaneous immunotherapy versus sublingual immunotherapy, arrive at the concept of personalized medicine regarding AIT, framing in different phenotypes of asthma patients to use the optimal preparation for each … |
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Asthma-COPD Overlap — A New Clinical Entity
Medscape Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both common and well-recognized airway disorders. They have usually been considered discrete entities with treatments that are described by different guidelines (GINA and GOLD, … Do asthma and COPD truly exist? Is labelling every breathing problem as asthma & COPD even viable? Are diagnostic labels of asthma, COPD even viable? |
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Surgical Treatment of Bronchial Asthma by Resection of the Laryngeal Nerve
Medscape Background: Management of asthma in chronically affected patients is a serious health problem. Our aim was to show that surgical treatment of chronic bronchial asthma by unilateral resection of the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (ib … |
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Prenatal Exposure to Asthma Drugs May Boost Autism Risk
Medscape "During an asthma exacerbation in pregnancy, the prenatal maternal stress response may be elevated, which would be harmful during a time when the fetal limbic system is considered to be the most vulnerable to such a stress response, especially before … |
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Shingles Risk 70% Higher for Adults With Asthma
Medscape Asthma is an unrecognized risk factor for herpes zoster (shingles) in adults, and clinicians should consider vaccinating asthmatics at least 50 years old as a target group, according to a study published online December 28 in the Journal of Allergy and … |
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