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Your Life, Your Health: New asthma treatment
WRGB Nicole Thompson has battled with chronic severe asthma for most of her life, often ending up in the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. But thanks to a relatively new procedure, Nicole says today she rarely uses her inhaler. She's also off … |
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Investigational Asthma Treatment Cuts Exacerbation Rates in Half
Pharmacy Times (registration) The study compared the anti-interleukin-5 (IL-5) monoclonal antibody, reslizumab, with placebo in 953 patients with both asthma and elevated blood eosinophil levels. The research team found that patients treated with reslizumab in the first study … |
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Lung Disease News |
Study Highlights Need For Greater Treatment Practice Standardization Of …
Lung Disease News shutterstock_224584318 The heterogeneity of asthma, comprising a group of related disorders that can be caused or contributed to by a diverse range of factors, makes the disease challenging to study and treat. In addressing that issue, the Cincinnati … |
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The Treatment of Asthma: Portion of a Lecture delivered in the Regular Course …
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association For the relief of asthma an almost countless number of drugs have been suggested and tried. It is not my purpose even to enumerate these, but to call attention to those that are to day most frequently employed with success and to those with which I … |
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io9 |
Psychedelic Drug Could Have Promising Future In Treatment Of Asthma
io9 A potent psychedelic drug, DOI, was recently shown to be effective in treating asthma in a mouse model. Photo Credit: Flickr user KristyFaith. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The psychedelic drug DOI (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine) was invented by chemist … |
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American Thoracic Society Expert Available to Discuss Asthma and Its Treatment
Newswise (press release) Sally Wenzel, M.D., a top expert in the diagnosis and management of asthma, is available to discuss the disease as well as the issues surrounding it, including its prevalence in different population and age groups, risk factors, causes, diagnosis … |
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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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Pharmacist Counseling Improves Salbutamol Asthma Treatment
Pharmacy Times By educating nurses, counseling physicians, and providing feedback on inhalation technique, pharmacists can reduce issues related to salbutamol treatment for asthma and bronchitis, according to research findings published in BMC Health Services … |
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Naples Daily News |
Asthma treatment has sufferers full of air
Naples Daily News He got frustrated, mad sometimes, from hobbies lost due to severe asthma and other health problems. The North Fort Myers winter resident may never make stained glass art again. But what's new in his life is walking three-fourths of a mile on a treadmill. |
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Treatment of acute asthma among pregnant women improves over 17-year period
Healio “On the basis of four observational studies of pregnant women with acute asthma in 48 EDs, we found a significant increase in the ED administration of systemic corticosteroids and prescription of systemic corticosteroids at ED discharge over the 17 … |
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