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Health Affairs (blog) |
New Narrative Matters: Asthma And Injustice On Chicago's Southeast Side
Health Affairs (blog) In Health Affairs' May Narrative Matters essay, a physician discovers a potential environmental link to asthma attacks in a poor Chicago community. Kohar Jones' article is freely available to all readers, or you can listen to the podcast. Don't forget … |
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Asthma, skin rashes and other side effects of mosquito coils and other repellents
TheHealthSite Out of the 286 doctors surveyed from the same area as the household surveys, they confirmed that patients with bronchial irritation, strong reactions leading to asthma and ENT or eye problems needed treatment. The study also confirms that chemicals in … |
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Childhood asthma: Looking on the brighter side
Science Codex Asthma researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown, for the first time, that specific environmental influences can neutralize the effect of a prevalent genetic variant that increases risk for childhood asthma. The new … |
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Medical Xpress |
Looking on the brighter side of childhood asthma
Medical Xpress The effect of a widespread genetic variant that increases the risk for childhood asthma can be neutralized. A new study shows that young infants are particularly responsive to the positive influence of exposure to farm dust. |
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FoodWiki: a Mobile App Examines Side Effects of Food Additives Via Semantic Web.
J Med Syst. 2016 Feb;40(2):41
Authors: Çelik Ertu?rul D
Abstract
In this article, a research project on mobile safe food consumption system (FoodWiki) is discussed that performs its own inferencing rules in its own knowledge base. Currently, the developed rules examines the side effects that are causing some health risks: heart disease, diabetes, allergy, and asthma as initial. There are thousands compounds added to the processed food by food producers with numerous effects on the food: to add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify, and so forth. Those commonly used ingredients or compounds in manufactured foods may have many side effects that cause several health risks such as heart disease, hypertension, cholesterol, asthma, diabetes, allergies, alzheimer etc. according to World Health Organization. Safety in food consumption, especially by patients in these risk groups, has become crucial, given that such health problems are ranked in the top ten health risks around the world. It is needed personal e-health knowledge base systems to help patients take control of their safe food consumption. The systems with advanced semantic knowledge base can provide recommendations of appropriate foods before consumption by individuals. The proposed FoodWiki system is using a concept based search mechanism that performs on thousands food compounds to provide more relevant information.
PMID: 26590979 [PubMed – in process]
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Advera Health: Novartis, GSK asthma meds linked to more side effects than …
FiercePharma Healthcare informatics firm Advera Health Analytics scoured FDA postmarketing safety reports to compile data on side effects for companies producing asthma meds. Advera uses a reporting odds ratio (ROR) to compare the actual number of side effects … |
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Beliefs about medication predict the misattribution of a common symptom as a medication side effect – Evidence from an analogue online study.
J Psychosom Res. 2015 Oct 13;
Authors: Heller MK, Chapman SC, Horne R
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Some perceived medication side effects may be ‘normal’ symptoms that patients misattribute to the medication. Using an analogue approach, we tested if medication beliefs predict whether participants misattribute a headache as a side effect and subsequently intend to stop medication.
METHODS: We recruited 690 participants, 223 reporting a past asthma diagnosis. They received information about asthma and Molair, a fictitious asthma treatment modeled on a licensed treatment (montelukast). We varied the description of efficacy and side effects (which did not include headache). Pre-exposure to this information, participants completed the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (BMQ)-General and the Perceived Sensitivity to Medicines Scale (PSM), post-exposure they completed the BMQ-Specific. Participants were asked to imagine they experienced a headache while taking Molair. Finally, they rated whether the headache was a side effect (misattribution) and if they would stop taking Molair (behavioral intention).
RESULTS: Nearly a quarter (170) of participants misattributed the headache to Molair and 69 (10%) subsequently intended to stop Molair. Both outcomes were predicted by general and specific medication beliefs. Odds of misattribution (m) and behavioral intention (i) increased with higher General Harm (ORm=1.90, ORi=2.72), General Overuse (ORm=1.74, ORi=1.56) and Molair Concern beliefs (ORm=1.52, ORi=1.78, all p<.01), but decreased with General Benefit (ORm=0.72, ORi=0.53) and Molair Necessity beliefs (ORm=0.72, ORi=0.70, all p<.05).
CONCLUSION: Symptom misattribution and subsequent intentions to stop Molair were predicted by pre-exposure beliefs about medicines in general and post-exposure beliefs about Molair. Patients with negative medication beliefs may be prone to misattribute symptoms and subsequently stop medication.
PMID: 26519128 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Columbus Dispatch |
East Side boy inspires books that ease families' fear of asthma
Columbus Dispatch Johnson was 6 in 2011 when his asthma was diagnosed. Like many other young asthma sufferers, he struggled at first with the regimen of medication, which includes a twice-a-day preventive medicine and an inhaler he keeps handy in case he needs it. |
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Columbus Dispatch |
Books by East Side mom eases families' fear of asthma
Columbus Dispatch Johnson was 6 in 2011 when his asthma was diagnosed. Like many other young asthma sufferers, he struggled at first with the regimen of medication, which includes a twice-a-day preventive medicine and an inhaler he keeps handy in case he needs it. |
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cleveland.com |
Marijuana legalization road block; children with asthma; West Side Market …
cleveland.com Here are some of the stories from the last 12 hours you may have missed, including a possible constitutional amendment to block the legalization of marijuana, profiles of Cleveland children in poverty and coping with asthma and big changes coming to … |
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