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New treatment to curb asthma attacks
7Online.com "It seems to reduce the thickness of the smooth muscle, which may reduce the spasming," said Sumita B. Khatri, MD, MS Co-Director Asthma Center Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute. A catheter goes through the nose or mouth, into the lungs and … Boston Scientific's Device To Relieve Severe Asthma: A Major Opportunity |
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New treatment for adult asthma
6abc.com He has mild to moderate asthma and uses his inhaler twice a day as recommended by national guidelines. But doctors from the University of Texas compared using the medication this way to using it based on symptoms. "The amount of corticosteroid that a … |
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Asthma Cause Discovery Could Help In Prevention, Treatment Of The Lung …
RedOrbit When an irritant enters the airways of a person with asthma, the immune system reacts to it as if it were a pathogen, causing the airways to become inflamed and produce mucus that makes breathing difficult. This study illustrates that early exposure to … Crippling viral infections 'cause asthma' Mother's milk no match for virus that triggers asthma How viral infections lead to asthma |
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Asthma treatment users a little bit shorter
Regina Leader-Post Results of a long-term asthma study found that children who used an inhaled steroid before they entered puberty were about a 1.27 cm shorter as adults than those who did not. Doctors have known since the 1990s that inhaled steroids taken for asthma can … 'Chaotic' family life damages asthma adherence Children Treated With Inhaled Steroids Are Shorter Than Peers, According To … |
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New Asthma Treatment Successful but Costly
ABC News For Jenny McLeland, 33, of St. Louis, severe asthma restricted not only her breathing but her daily life. McLeland, who has had asthma since birth, tried everything her doctors recommended to relieve her asthma, from playing sports to taking the … |
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New Treatment Could Prevent 80% Of Asthma Attacks
RedOrbit The study, which will be presented before the European Respiratory Society's annual congress in Vienna on Sunday, is said to be the first to offer evidence that boosting the immune system of a person suffering from asthma can actually reduce the number … |
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Breathable treatment to help prevent asthma attacks
Medical Xpress He continues: "Southampton researchers, working alongside asthma patients, made the original discovery that weakened immunity amongst asthmatics was key to viral impacts; now study participants are helping us to confirm that discovery and translate it … Synairgen presents proof of concept study |
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Breathable treatment to help prevent asthma attacks
Science Codex Details of a treatment that could help asthmatics fight infections that trigger 80% of asthma attacks, developed by University of Southampton spin-out company Synairgen, will be presented to European respiratory experts on Sunday 2 September. The study … Synairgen presents proof of concept study |
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Approval given for SkyePharma's asthma treatment
Stock Market Wire StockMarketWire.com – SkyePharma (LSE SKP) has announced that the UK regulatory authority, the Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has granted marketing authorisation for flutiform®, a combination product for the treatment of … SKYEPHARMA PLC : Half Yearly Report |
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New asthma treatment, bronchial thermoplasty, helps patients breathe easier
abc7.com LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Asthma sufferers are accustomed to using inhalers and medicine to breathe easier, but now there's a new procedure that could help treat the disease. For 73-year-old Betzable Alday, breathing used to be painful. "Before, I used to … |
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