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Closer Look: Average adult on Medicaid fills 23 prescriptions a year; drugs …
Chicago Tribune Medicaid covers drugs for a wide variety of illnesses, from asthma to schizophrenia, for the poor and disabled.Legislators are looking at other states for ideas. Tennessee, for example, limits adults to five prescriptions each month. |
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Bad year for allergy sufferers predicted
Evansville Courier & Press The same stuff that triggers what we sometimes call hay fever can also produce asthma symptoms — shortness of breath, tightness of chest, wheezing. When this happens, the condition is known as allergic asthma. Dust mites and pet dander, in addition to … 2012 allergy season flares early |
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Spring Allergies Strike Early This Year
WebMD “It's very unusual because it's so early,” says Stanley M. Fineman, MD, who is president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. His office, the Atlanta Allergy & Asthma Clinic, has been logging local pollen counts for nearly 20 … Allergist Available to Discuss Deaths Due to Asthma Attacks Warm Winter Means Allergy Season is Here Allergy Season Expected Sooner This Year |
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Asthma costs from air pollution costs Long Beach and Riverside $18 million a year
89.3 KPCC A study finds traffic-related cases of asthma are costing the city. Air pollution is taking a higher toll than previously thought, especially in Long Beach and Riverside. Researchers at USC's Keck School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts … |
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Asthmatic 'denied inhalers' over New Year break
Croydon Advertiser A SINGLE mother with asthma has slammed her doctors' surgery which she claims "left her to die" by refusing to give her an inhaler. Kerry Reeves was left without the medicine she so desperately needs for four days over the new year break because her … |
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New year brings new delay for SkyePharma's Flutiform asthma inhaler
FierceDrugDelivery That's because the British drug delivery company now stands to face an additional delay of between 6 and 9 months in the approval process for its Flutiform asthma therapy. As Reuters and the UK's The Telegraph reported just before the holidays, … |
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For Your Kids Sake, Start the New Year Smoke Free–and Stay That Way
news Stories Study results appear in the January 2012 issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI). Approximately 10% of people with asthma and one third of asthmatics with chronic … Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease Linked to Childhood Second-Hand Smoke … |
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10 year old won't let asthma hold him back
Hawke’s Bay Today Flaxmere 10-year-old, Harlem Morrell-Wilson, spends a whole day at Hawke's Bay Hospital once every three weeks to have treatment for severe asthma, chronic allergies and skin conditions. He recently travelled to Government House in Wellington where he … |
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New asthma research poised to save hundreds of lives a year
Scottish Daily Record SCIENTISTS hope to prevent 1100 deaths a year after discovering a new cause of severe asthma. The breakthrough centres on the five to 10 per cent of patients who do not respond to treatment with standard inhalers. Professor Mark Lindsay's team … |
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FDA bans CFCs in some inhalers from next year
Reuters (Reuters) – Health officials are banning the only asthma inhaler sold over the counter in the United States starting from next year to prevent the use of products that harm the environment. The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that … End Is Nigh For Over-The-Counter Inhalers That Eat The Ozone Layer FDA phases out inhaler due to environmental impact FDA Finalizing Phase-Out Of CFC-Using Inhalers |
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