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Study shows cost-effective expert recommended asthma test underutilized by …
Medical Xpress Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found, for the first time, that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in U.S. adults from 2001 to 2011, despite it's accuracy, cost effectiveness and … |
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Skin-Prick Test Results May Predict Emerging Asthma
Medscape HOUSTON — Sensitivity to cats and dust mites, identified on skin-prick testing in children up to 4 years of age, might be an indicator of the risk of developing asthma by age 7, according to results of a new study. This finding could help guide … |
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Brisbane Times |
Asthma attacks to be induced in patients to test new gene-inhibiting treatment
ABC Online In a world first, Queensland researchers will induce asthma in patients to try and revolutionise the treatment of the condition. Researchers at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane are trialling a drug that inhibits a gene found to be more active in people with … Arthritis drug may help treat asthma |
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Asthma Control Test not effective in younger African American children
Healio Krista Todoric, MD, of the department of pediatrics, division of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues, conducted a retrospective study on and assessed all pediatric patients with asthma … |
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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Drug: Budesonide/Formoterol Easyhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 4 inh; Drug: Budesonide/Formoterol Easyhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 1 inh; Drug: Symbicort Turbuhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 4 inh; Drug: Symbicort Turbuhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 1inh; Drug: Placebo Symbicort Turbuhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 4 inh; Drug: Placebo Budesonide/Formoterol Easyhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 4 inh; Drug: Placebo Budesonide/Formoterol Easyhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 1 inh; Drug: Placebo Symbicort Turbuhaler 320/9 ug/inhalation 1 inh
Sponsor: Orion Corporation, Orion Pharma
Not yet recruiting – verified December 2014
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Conditions: Asthma; Allergy; Reactive Airway Disease; Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Intervention: Drug: Mannitol
Sponsors: University of Rochester; National Institutes of Health (NIH); Pharmaxis; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Not yet recruiting – verified December 2014
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Daily Mail |
Simple test can predict asthma attacks in children
Daily Mail A simple test could help ensure asthmatic children get the right amount of medication to help prevent future asthma attacks. The test can accurately measure levels of inflammation within the urine that give warning signs of an imminent attack. Research … Urine test could warn of asthma attacks |
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The Times (subscription) |
Urine test could warn of asthma attacks
The Times (subscription) Rossa Brugha, of Queen Mary University of London, a co-author, said: “The key factor in treating children with asthma is to tailor their medicine accurately, ensuring the right amount of anti-inflammatory medication is being prescribed. This simple … |
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Medical Xpress |
Cold-related asthma attacks predictable with new test
Medical Xpress People who have asthma generally suffer worse with colds caused by rhinoviruses than other people do. There are also asthmatics and patients with the severe lung condition COPD in whom the cold virus can trigger serious flare-ups of their condition. |
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New blood test could help detect cold-related asthma risk
News-Medical.net People who have asthma generally suffer worse with colds caused by rhinoviruses than other people do. There are also asthmatics and patients with the severe lung condition COPD in whom the cold virus can trigger serious flare-ups of their condition. |
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