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Wake up call on asthma in children: New data must drive well-coordinated action!
OpEdNews If we listen to asthma experts and look at evidence, one reality becomes starkly clear: we have neglected asthma in children for far too long! "I think we have 'gone to sleep a bit' on asthma in resource-limited settings. The International Union … PCP Menu Toggle navigation |
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Did you or your children use the blockbuster asthma drug Singulair?
OpEdNews World sales of Merck's asthma drug Singulair were about $5 billion a year until 2012 when its patent expired and it was the U.S.'s seventh best-selling drug. But in September, data from an FDA committee were presented that acknowledge "safety concerns" … |
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Is it Asthma or COPD?
OpEdNews Both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic diseases involving airflow obstruction and are consequences of gene environment interaction. COPD includes progressive respiratory diseases like emphysema and chronic … |
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It Is Time To Control Asthma
OpEdNews This is the sub-theme of this year's (2014) World Asthma Day (WAD), which was first celebrated in 1998 in conjunction with the first World Asthma Meeting in Barcelona. It is an annual event aimed at improving asthma awareness, diagnosis, treatment, and … |
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How Obama is helping a disease that discriminates the way big business does
OpEdNews By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Charlene Smith Washington, DC — There is a disease that discriminates the way that big business does: asthma. Since 2001, asthma has risen sharply and is in more "children than … |
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How Safe Is Your Asthma Drug–Part Two
OpEdNews Long acting beta agonists as found in Symbicort, Dulera, Foradil, Advair Diskus and Serevent Diskus, (LABAs) are not the only asthma drugs with questionable safety and effectiveness that have become billion dollar … |
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How Safe Is Your Asthma Drug? Part One
OpEdNews The popular asthma drugs Symbicort, Advair Diskus, Serevent Diskus, Dulera and Foradil do both and actually warn on their labels that they cause an increased "risk of death from asthma problems." Big Pharma and the FDA have known for years that … |
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