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University Hospital First in Southeast to Offer New Treatment for Severe Asthma
The Emory Wheel Emory University Hospital has become the first hospital in the Southeast region to offer bronchial thermoplasty, a new treatment for people with severe asthma that permanently reduces the number and severity of … |
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Emory University Hospital First in Southeast to Offer Bronchial Thermoplasty …
Woodruff Health Sciences Center ATLANTA – Approximately 22 million Americans currently suffer from asthma, with 10-15 percent of that population – or over 3 million individuals – experiencing severe persistent asthma, which is difficult to control with even combined usage of … |
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Dr Les Ansley from Sport Asthma and Northumbria University talks exercise …
bdaily Exercise-induced asthma (EIA) describes a condition in which the airways narrow in response to exercise, which makes it more difficult to breathe air out of the lungs. EIA occurs in most people who have clinical asthma but also a large proportion of … |
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Baylor Researcher to Study Air Pollution, Asthma Exacerbation in Fort Worth …
Baylor University A new study by Baylor University environmental researchers will look at asthma rates, regional air contaminants, pollution source and contaminant particle size in a Tarrant county school district near Fort Worth. In 2009, childhood asthma in Tarrant … |
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Aberdeen University asthma study
BBC News Aberdeen University researchers are to play a role in a major UK study aimed at reducing the number of preventable deaths from asthma. Around 1200 people die in the UK every year as a result of the condition. All asthma-related deaths over a 12 month … |
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Asthma camp coming to Duquesne University
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Duquesne University will host a free asthma camp for children 5 to 17 years from 9 am to 2 pm Saturday at the AJ Palumbo Center, Uptown. The university is partnering with Allegheny General Hospital and For Your Good Health, … |
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EPA Grants $1 Million to University of Pittsburgh for asthma study
U.S. EPA.gov (press release) Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and other institutions will coordinate efforts to determine and understand the effects of air pollution on childhood asthma when combined with social stressors such as poverty and violence. … |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham Offers New Asthma Treatment
ThirdAge The University of Alabama at Birmingham will be the first hospital in the state to offer a new form of treatment for asthma, the Associated Press reported yesterday. The procedure, called bronchial thermoplasty, involves sending heat into … |
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Clinical features and outcome of hospitalised adults and children with the 2009 influenza A H1N1 infection at Geneva’s University Hospital.
Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13177
Authors: Lücker LM, Kherad O, Iten A, Wagner N, Descombes M, Camus V, Kaiser L, Louis-Simonet M
To describe the clinical features and outcomes of hospitalised cases of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus infection at Geneva’s University Hospital during the peak of the epidemic.
PMID: 21416409 [PubMed – in process]
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Children with mild asthma may benefit from intermittent treatment
Washington University Record Children who have asthma but are experiencing few or no symptoms often stop using daily asthma medications much to their doctors' chagrin. However, results of a new study suggest taking medication at the onset of symptoms is better than … |
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