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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 […]

  • 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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Study shows asthma-related Twitter posts can predict rise in hospital visits – Medical Xpress

    Study shows asthma-related Twitter posts can predict rise in hospital visitsMedical XpressFor 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 …and more » View full post on asthma – Google News

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Outcomes of immunotherapy tablet for house dust mite allergy-related asthma – Medical Xpress

    Medical Xpress Outcomes of immunotherapy tablet for house dust mite allergy-related asthmaMedical XpressBronchial 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 […]

  • 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

  • Hormone drug could cure asthma and other fibrosis-related diseases – Medical Xpress

    Medical Xpress Hormone drug could cure asthma and other fibrosis-related diseasesMedical XpressMonash 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 …and more » View full post on asthma – […]