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Two drugs are better than one for asthma control: study
Reuters Based on a review of data from 64 asthma drug trials, the new study found that patients using inhaled corticosteroids with a long-acting bronchodilator had about half as many symptom flare ups and asthma attacks as those just on the steroids. “There … |
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Two drugs are better than one for asthma control: study
Business Insider NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with asthma are likely to benefit from combining medications to manage their symptoms, a strategy that requires doctors and patients to work together to tweak prescriptions, Dutch researchers say. Based on a review of … |
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Study flips child obesity-asthma link on its head
Taipei Times A group of local researchers have found a causal link between childhood obesity and the development of asthma, contradicting the established belief that it is childhood asthma that leads to excessive weight gain in children. The group came to the … |
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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Drug: Beclometasone Dipropionate 100 µg + Formoterol Fumarate 6 µg; Drug: Beclometasone Dipropionate 200 µg + Formoterol Fumarate 6 µg; Drug: Placebo
Sponsor: Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.
Recruiting – verified May 2014
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Childhood asthma, lung disease elevated near airport, study finds
Boston Globe Children who live in neighborhoods bordering Logan International Airport are as much as four times more likely to wheeze, experience shortness of breath, and exhibit other signs of undiagnosed asthma compared to children who live farther away … Study Released On Health Impacts Of Logan Airport Health Study on Impacts of Logan Airport out Today |
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Giving antibiotics to infants may make them more prone to asthma, study says
Washington Post By age 3, about 18 percent of the children had developed wheezing or asthma. Compared with those who had never taken antibiotics, children who had taken the medication in infancy were twice as likely to have developed wheezing and 60 percent more … |
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UNM researchers recruiting for asthma study
HSC Newsbeat Researchers at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center are recruiting asthma patients for a study that they hope will improve treatments for black Americans suffering from the disease. Rates of serious asthma attacks and asthma-related … |
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New study finds inhaler reminders dramatically improve asthma controller …
Science Codex ATS 2014, SAN DIEGO— Reminders prompting asthma patients to take their control inhalers if they miss a dose significantly improve medication adherence, according to a primary-care based study conducted by a research team in Australia. In this six … |
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Could Asthma and Osteoporosis Be Linked? Study Says Yes
EmpowHer There may be a link between asthma and bone loss. The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology reported in May, 2014 that this loss of bone mineral density may affect about 26 million asthmatic Americans. Research was done on 7,000 … |
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Vitamin E-rich oils may increase incidence of asthma, says study
News-Medical.net A large new Northwestern Medicine- study upends our understanding of vitamin E and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy vitamin E-rich oils — canola, soybean and corn – to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and, possibly, asthma. Vitamin E in canola linked to asthma, lung inflammation Vitamin E in canola and other oils hurts lungs |
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