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Hindustan Times |
Salt therapy for asthma: Living without inhalers and steroids
Hindustan Times Salt therapy, also known as halotherapy, has helped reduce her symptoms of asthma, for which she's been using inhalers and steroids since she was two years old. “She would cough and wheeze frequently and has been carrying an inhaler with her since … |
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First-in-class biologic maintenance therapy approved for severe asthma
ModernMedicine Nucala, developed by GlaxoSmithKline, is an interleukin-5 (IL-5) antagonist monoclonal antibody that reduces the production and survival of esosinophils, which are one of the inflammatory cell types involved in asthma. The biologic is to be … |
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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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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Drug: Nebulized Magnesium Sulfate; Drug: Nebulized isotonic saline; Drug: Nebulized Salbutamol; Drug: Ipratropium bromide; Drug: Methylprednisolone or Prednisolone
Sponsor: Hospital General Naval de Alta Especialidad
Recruiting – verified October 2015
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Lung Disease News |
Tiotropium Therapy Shown As Safe and Effective Treatment for Adolescents with …
Lung Disease News Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory lung disease characterized by airflow obstruction that causes wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and coughing. The respiratory disorder is estimated to affect 27 million individuals in the United States. |
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Conditions: Asthma; Asthma Exacerbations
Intervention:
Sponsors: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC)
Not yet recruiting – verified July 2015
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Mylan Launches First Bioequivalent Alternative to Combination Asthma Therapy …
MarketWatch Mylan President Rajiv Malik said, "Mylan is excited to be the first company to offer adult asthma patients in the UK the generic version of Seretide Evohaler, delivering on our mission to increase access to high quality medicine. Sirdupla represents a … |
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Prescribed therapy
Medscape Conclusions Patients with high ICS-to-total-asthma-medication ratios presented fewer asthma-related outcomes. The low ICS-to-total-asthma-medication ratio calculated with EMRs data reflects insufficient prescribing of ICS relative to all asthma … |
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Design & Trend |
New asthma therapy? Approved drugs show promise
Futurity: Research News Researchers have identified the potential root cause of asthma and are testing a class of drugs—initially developed to treat osteoporosis—that may reverse symptoms. “Our findings are incredibly exciting,” says Daniela Riccardi, a professor from … Asthma Could Be Cured Within Five Years Scientists Have Found the Cause of Asthma — and Possibly the Cure Researchers Possibly Find Root Cause of Asthma |
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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Drug: Vitamin D3; Drug: Placebo
Sponsors: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Not yet recruiting – verified April 2015
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