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International Business Times AU |
Australian researchers explore new asthma treatments in world-first trials
International Business Times AU In a world-first human trial, Australian researchers will test a vaccine used to combat childhood bacterial infections to treat a common type of asthma. The Hunter Medical Research Institute will study if an injection called Prevenar 13, which is given … |
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International Business Times AU |
Australian researchers explore new treatments for asthma in world-first trials
International Business Times AU In a world-first human trial, Australian researchers will test a vaccine used to combat childhood bacterial infections to treat a common type of asthma. Hunter Medical Research Institute will study if an injection called Prevenar 13, which is given to … |
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News-Medical.net |
Researchers compare effectiveness of combination therapy for black patients …
News-Medical.net Among black adults with asthma treated with an inhaled corticosteroid, adding a long-acting beta-agonist did not improve the time to an asthma exacerbation compared with adding the anticholinergic tiotropium, according to a study in the October 27 … Asthma: LABA + Steroids Not a Winning Combo for Blacks Is One Combination Tx Better than Another in Reducing Asthma Exacerbations in … |
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Herald Sun |
Australian researchers to test vaccine as asthma treatment in world-first trial
Herald Sun The trial, funded by Asthma Australia, will see 50 adults with eosinophilic asthma receive three doses of the vaccine over two months. “The strength is it is a completely new attack at approaching asthma. There is no other vaccine out there,” he said … |
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Allergic asthma: UFZ researchers identify a key molecule
EurekAlert (press release) Worldwide, there are more than 300 million asthma patients. In Germany alone, 10 – 15 percent of children suffer from allergic asthma that is often impaired by environ-mental pollutants. With the medications available today, symptoms can be effectively … |
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Medical Xpress |
Allergic asthma: Researchers identify a key molecule
Medical Xpress In addition to hay fever, allergic asthma is currently considered to be one of the most widespread allergies. UFZ researchers and their colleagues from the University of Leipzig have recently been successful in finding a protein that plays a critical … |
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Medical Xpress |
Blanket approach to asthma treatment not ideal, researchers find
Medical Xpress Obstruction of the lumen of a bronchiole by mucoid exudate, goblet cell metaplasia, and epithelial basement membrane thickening in a person with asthma. Credit: Yale Rosen/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0. University of Queensland research into the effects of … |
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Fox News |
Researchers 'delighted' with results of iPhone Asthma Health app
Fox News “We are delighted with the initial results we've seen after six months of using Apple's ResearchKit framework for our Asthma Health app,” said Eric Schadt, professor of genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine, in a press release. “We recruited and … |
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Deseret News |
U. researchers to study triggers for pediatric asthma, pollution link
Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A team of University of Utah researchers hopes to eliminate some of the guess work over what triggers a child's asthma attack, including local air quality conditions that could play a role. A $5.5 million grant from the National … |
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Researchers identify link between asthma, Parkinson's disease
Healio Researchers also reported a dose-dependent relationship between greater asthma severity and higher risk for Parkinson's disease. Chih-Ming Cheng, MD, of the department of psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues … |
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