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Asthma hospital admissions linked to poor general practice access
Medical Xpress Lead 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. |
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Asthma overdiagnosed in Canadian adults
Medical 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 … |
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Most asthma research may not apply to African-American children
Medical Xpress Results 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 stress |
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Preventing asthma in children: UA researchers are one step closer
Medical Xpress Efforts 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 major child asthma problems Asthma cases back on the rise |
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Study shows asthma-related Twitter posts can predict rise in hospital visits
Medical Xpress For the study, "The Twitter Asthma Pulse: Using Real-Time Twitter Data to Prospectively Predict Asthma Emergency Department Visits or Hospital Admissions in a Population," researchers collected tweets posted between October 2013 and June 2014 and … |
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Extreme heat and precipitation linked to more severe asthma requiring hospitalization
Medical Xpress Based 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 … |
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Yoga may have health benefits for people with asthma
Medical Xpress A 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 asthma? |
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Outcomes of immunotherapy tablet for house dust mite allergy-related asthma
Medical Xpress Bronchial asthma is a serious global health problem with increasing prevalence in many countries. House dust mite sensitization is present in up to 50 percent of patients with asthma, and exposure to HDM allergen has been related to asthma severity. Dust Mite SLIT Promising Add-On to Asthma Maintenance Meds Journal of the American Medical Association Publishes Phase III Data from Allergic Asthma Trial with ALK's House … |
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Discovery could lead to better asthma treatment
Medical Xpress Obstruction 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 … |
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Hormone drug could cure asthma and other fibrosis-related diseases
Medical Xpress Monash scientists tested the modified Relaxin hormone in animal models of heart failure and asthma. To their surprise they found that administering the new hormone intranasally to animals with chronic allergic airways disease (equivalent to asthma in … |
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