Asthma Awareness Month Spawns Healthy Advice
May is Asthma Awareness Month according EPA, and DUCTZ Indoor Air Professionals is taking this opportunity to educate consumers on the importance of clean indoor air in relation to this serious condition.
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Culture-Specific Asthma Education Could Improve Quality Of Life
Asthma education programs tailored specifically for ethnic minority groups can help improve asthma sufferers' knowledge of their condition and their quality of life.
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Teens Think they Have asthma Under Control
Teens benefit from new approach to Asthma treatment show researchers in 2 asthma studies at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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Overcoming 'I'm In Control Syndrome'
Two studies offer new insights to help adolescents and younger children improve their asthma control.
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Trees Reduce Childhood Asthma Risk
Children living in tree-lined streets have lower risk for developing asthma and its symptoms.
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Obesity worsens impact of asthma
Obesity can worsen the impact of asthma and may also mask its severity in standard tests, according to researchers in New Zealand, who studied lung function in asthmatic women with a range of body mass indexes (BMIs).
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Cockroaches Worsen Asthma Symptoms
May is national asthma and allergy awareness month.
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Homemade Asthma-Relief Device: An Option For Poor Families
When an asthma attack occurs, many sufferers use a device - a "spacer" - to increase the chances that rescue medicine travels from an inhaler all the way down to the airways where it is needed.
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Air Pollution Affects Respiratory Health In Asthma Patients
Inner-city children with asthma may be particularly vulnerable to air pollution at levels below current air quality standards.
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Gene Linked To Inherited Blood Biomarker Associated With Asthma Risk
Risk for developing asthma is linked to variants in a gene called CHI3L1, which can be measured by checking levels of an inherited blood protein regulated by that gene.
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MAP Reports Positive Results From Trial Of Combination Therapy In Adult Asthmatics
MAP Pharmaceuticals announced positive results from a Phase 2a clinical study evaluating MAP0005 for the potential treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Eco-Friendly Inhalers Will Cost Kids With Asthma More Green
U-M expert says even with insurance, co-pay for new HFA inhalers will likely rise 200% to 400% for families that have kids with asthma.
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Asthma Drug Singulair May Have Serious Side Effects
FDA and the Canadian health agency are studying to see if widely used asthma treatment drug Singulair's usage has suicide as its side effects.
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MAP Reports Positive Results From Comparative Pharmacokinetic Trial For Pediatric Asthma Product
MAP's UDB demonstrated lower systemic drug exposure for or the potential treatment of pediatric asthma when compared to the currently marketed conventional nebulized budesonide.
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Report Finds Progress In Decreasing Asthma Burden
A new state report shows progress in reducing the burden of asthma in Wisconsin, although some racial and ethnic groups are still disproportionately affected.
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Genaera's Trial Of Antibody Targeting Interleukin-9 In Asthma Patients
MedImmune has initiated its fourth phase 2a clinical trial of MEDI-528, an anti-IL-9 monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-9, in patients with asthma.
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Advair Reduces Asthma-Related Hospitalization
Advair Diskus was associated with fewer asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits in pediatric patients.
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Asthma medications often not prescribed according to guidelines
More than a decade after national guidelines were issued for asthma treatment, some patients still don't receive prescriptions for the inhalers that experts say offer the safest and most effective long-term control of asthma.
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Asthma Guidelines - Breathe Easier This Spring
Allergy and asthma specialists to begin implementing The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.
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Lungs' Mast Cells Could Provide New Asthma Treatment Target
An enzyme released by mast cells in the lungs appears to play a key role in the tightening of airways that is a hallmark of asthma - pointing to a potential new target for treatment of asthma.
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Inverseon Announces Positive Asthma Study
Inverseon publicates a positive phase IIa clinical trial in asthma.
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New Drug To Become Clinical Gold Standard For Asthma
Schering- Plough/Novartis's formoterol/mometasone will become the clinical gold standard for asthma by 2011, owing to its competitive advantages in delivery over AstraZeneca's Symbicort.
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Aridol For Asthma Treatment Gains Asian Approval
Korean regulatory agency has granted marketing approval for Pharmaxis' asthma management product, Aridol.
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Breathe Easy, Play Hard,
Asthma has a new line up as top athletes get behind an innovative asthma awareness initiative called Breathe Easy Play Hard.
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Antibiotic treatment targets difficult asthma
Hunter researchers have shown that a commonly available antibiotic can improve the quality of life of patients with difficult asthma, and may also generate significant health care savings.
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Cultural Beliefs Affect Parents' Views Of Children's Asthma, Treatment
Parents' cultural beliefs influence how they view their children's asthma and its treatment.
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Addressing Health Disparities In Asthma Educational Materials
Editorial summarizes recent studies that discuss racial disparities in asthma educational materials and vascular disease.
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Asthma Education Brochures Aimed At Minorities Miss Mark In Wisconsin
Take-home educational materials designed for minority children with asthma do not adequately address the cultural and linguistic issues unique to racial/ethnic minority groups.
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Study Shows Need To Test More Asthma Patients For Underdiagnosed Pulmonary Disease
A higher than expected number of COPD and severe asthma patients had abnormal low levels of alpha-1 antitrypsin.
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AIM-Quoted Verona Pharma Progresses Anti-Asthma Drug Studies
Verona Pharma announces another important step forward in the planned development of its anti-asthma and hay fever drug treatment.
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Importance Of Seeking Immediate Help When Suffering Breathing Problems
The tightness in your chest may not be indigestion. It may be a sign of asthma, and if not treated, it could be fatal.
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Families, neighborhoods affect asthma in children and adolescents
Dysfunctional families and bad neighborhoods may worsen asthma symptoms in children and adolescents.
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Black Asthma Patients More Likely To Need Urgent Care
Blacks are more prone than whites to require urgent care for asthma complications, likely because of genetics.
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African Americans With Asthma May Fare Worse Regardless of Severity
Patients with asthma who are black appear more likely to visit the emergency department or be hospitalized for the condition than those who are white
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FDA Proposing Phase Out Of CFCs In Metered-Dose Inhalers For Epinephrine
FDA proposed a change to its regulation on the use of chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs in metered dose inhalers for epinephrine.
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New Approaches For Monitoring Asthma Control
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program issued the first comprehensive update in a decade of clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma.
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Removing indoor mould helps symptoms of asthma
A Cardiff University study has found that removing indoor mould improves the symptoms of people with asthma.
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Avocados May Help Prevent Oral CancerStudy Finds High Rate Of Asthma In College Athletes
More than a third of college athletes assessed for breathing problems had test results suggesting exercise-induced asthma, even in those athletes who had no previous history of asthma.
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School Is Cool For Asthma Patients Of All Ages
More than 20 million American children and adults with asthma are getting a back-to-school boost from the new asthma care guidelines.
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Expanding Prevalent Population Will Drive Dramatic Growth For Asthma Drug Market
Decision Resources forecasts that the asthma drug market in China willexperience dramatic growth, due to an expanding prevalent population.
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