Tag: Xpress
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Asthma hospital admissions linked to poor general practice access – Medical Xpress
Asthma hospital admissions linked to poor general practice accessMedical XpressLead researcher Dr Robert Fleetcroft from UEA's Norwich Medical School said: "Asthma is a very common condition which affects more than five million people in the UK. Occasionally it can become life threatening and lead to emergency hospital admission. View full post on asthma – Google […]
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Asthma overdiagnosed in Canadian adults – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Asthma overdiagnosed in Canadian adultsMedical Xpress"Careful testing revealed that 33 percent of people who had been recently diagnosed with asthma in the community did not have current asthma even after withdrawal of asthma medications," said lead study author Shawn Aaron, MD, of the Ottawa Hospital … View full post on asthma – Google News
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Most asthma research may not apply to African-American children – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Most asthma research may not apply to African-American childrenMedical XpressResults from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African-American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population, raising concerns for …High asthma rates linked to childhood […]
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Preventing asthma in children: UA researchers are one step closer – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Preventing asthma in children: UA researchers are one step closerMedical XpressEfforts to improve the health of children at increased risk for asthma will receive a major boost with the launch of a new University of Arizona Health Sciences-led, federally funded national clinical study. For Fernando D. Martinez, MD, and his …New alliance targets […]
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Extreme heat and precipitation linked to more severe asthma requiring hospitalization – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Extreme heat and precipitation linked to more severe asthma requiring hospitalizationMedical XpressBased on over a decade of asthma hospitalization data (115,923 cases from 2000-2012), researchers observed higher risk of asthma hospitalization after extreme heat or extreme precipitation events. The increases in risk were particularly high during …and more » View full post on asthma […]
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Yoga may have health benefits for people with asthma – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Yoga may have health benefits for people with asthmaMedical XpressA new Cochrane Review summarizes the results of randomised trials and has found evidence that practicing yoga might be able to improve asthma quality of life and symptoms to some extent. However, researchers also warned that higher-quality studies with …Can yoga really help to fight […]
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Discovery could lead to better asthma treatment – Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress Discovery could lead to better asthma treatmentMedical XpressObstruction of the lumen of a bronchiole by mucoid exudate, goblet cell metaplasia, and epithelial basement membrane thickening in a person with asthma. Credit: Yale Rosen/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.0. Scientists have made a discovery that could lead to …and more » View full post on asthma – Google News