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Asthma Treatments Fail Older Patients More Often: Study
U.S. News & World Report FRIDAY, June 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Asthma treatments, especially inhaled corticosteroids, are less likely to work for older patients, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at 1,200 patients with mild-to-moderate asthma, and found that … |
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Asthma Treatments Fail Older Patients More Often: Study
HealthDay FRIDAY, June 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Asthma treatments, especially inhaled corticosteroids, are less likely to work for older patients, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at 1,200 patients with mild-to-moderate asthma, and found that … |
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International Business Times |
World Asthma Day 2015: 4 Key Facts About Asthma, Causes, Triggers, Treatments
International Business Times Tuesday is World Asthma Day, an event that people may find increasingly relevant, as the number and percentage of people with asthma continues to rise. By 2025, 100 million more people in the world will have asthma than the number of those with it today. Allergies and Asthma: What's the Connection? World Asthma Day 2015: Free yourself from the grip of Asthma |
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New research lays groundwork for developing treatments for asthma, COPD
News-Medical.net In diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the body produces too much mucus, making breathing difficult. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides clues to potentially counteract … |
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Irish Independent |
Breathing for life: Huge progress in asthma treatments
Irish Independent So they came to the conclusion that she was suffering from allergic asthma. It then emerged that her father, Ned Morrissey, a well-known horse breeder, had suffered from asthma when Breda was a child, but she says she "never even saw an inhaler in the … |
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Lung Disease News |
Asthma and COPD Have Similar Symptoms, Different Treatments
Lung Disease News asthma and COPD A seasoned allergist and fellow from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) recently presented a study during the institution's Annual Scientific Meeting on the overlapping symptoms of chronic obstructive … |
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Headlines & Global News |
Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments
Headlines & Global News "Every year asthma costs many tens of billions of dollars, significant productivity due to lost work and school days, and even lives," said senior author Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard … |
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Gizmag |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip to aid in search for new asthma treatments
Gizmag Unfortunately for asthma sufferers and those looking to develop new treatments to help them, animal models traditionally used to test potential new drugs don't always mimic human responses. Joining lungs and guts, scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute … Airway muscle-on-a-chip 'simulates asthma in humans' Harvard-made lung muscle could yield asthma insights Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments |
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Care2.com |
Asthma Treatments Make Kids Shorter but Don't Get Breathless Over It
Care2.com It's estimated that about 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, with rates rising in so-called developed nations. Drugs called corticosteroids, taken through an asthma reliever inhaler, are prescribed as a first line of treatment because … Some Asthma Medications Restrict Kids' Growth Corticosteroid Asthma Inhalers May Suppress Growth in Children Asthma Medication May Suppress Children's Growth |
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Physicians anticipate more biologics, once-daily treatments for asthma
Healio Physicians anticipate utilizing additional once-daily and novel biologic agents that are expected to be launched in the US by 2018 to treat patients with asthma, according to survey results from Decision Resources Group. Novel biologics that target … |
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