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University of Adelaide researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are involved in the world's biggest study of its kind investigating a possible new treatment for asthma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-trial-asthma-drug-lung-inflammation.html Inflammatory disorders Wed, 01 May 2013 08:40:01 EST news286615379 (HealthDay)—A program to administer asthma medication each day to urban children with asthma reduces symptoms and is cost-effective, according to research published online Feb. 11 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-urban-school-based-asthma-treatment-cost-effective.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:50:01 EST news279891921 The troubled history of asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists goes back to the 1990s when a large clinical trial in Great Britain of the GlaxoSmithKline drug Serevent produced disturbing results. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-1990s-trial-gave-early-danger.html Medications Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:00:02 EST news273086605 (HealthDay)—Perceived stress correlates with an increased risk of adult-onset asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis as well as asthma medication use, according to a study published online Sept. 3 in Allergy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-stress-linked-asthma-atopic-disorders.html Immunology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:40:01 EST news267452066 Vienna, Austria: Parental problems and a chaotic home environment could be preventing children from taking their prescribed asthma medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-parental-problems-children-much-needed-asthma.html Immunology Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:20:02 EST news265971962 Use of inhaled anticholinergics (IACs) has been associated with an increased risk of potentially dangerous heart arrhythmias among young asthma patients, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The medications are commonly used to help control asthma flare-ups, and recent studies have shown that they may be an effective treatment option for routine asthma management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-asthma-medication-linked-arrhythmias-children.html Immunology Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:04 EST news256904640 Higher mortality rates among older adult asthma patients compared to their younger counterparts may be due, at least in part, to an increase in airway inflammation, according to a study conducted by researchers in Canada, who note that their results imply that elderly patients are either less likely to follow asthma medication dosing instructions, or that the underlying airway inflammation in elderly patients is relatively resistant to current anti-inflammatory therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-inflammation-higher-mortality-older-asthma.html Immunology Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:04 EST news256823562 (Medical Xpress) -- Pregnant women are exposing themselves and their unborn babies to unnecessary risk by stopping their asthma medication without consulting their doctor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pregnant-women-asthma-medication.html Inflammatory disorders Tue, 08 May 2012 10:00:01 EST news255689290 Health insurance policies that shift costs to patients through higher co-payments may have serious unintended consequences for children, including less use of effective treatments and an increased number of hospitalizations, according to a new study in JAMA by researchers from the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-parents-price-sensitive-children-medication.html Medications Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:00:02 EST news252081977 (HealthDay) -- Overweight children may not respond as well to common asthma medicines known as inhaled corticosteroids, new research finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-heavy-kids-asthma-meds.html Inflammatory disorders Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:48:28 EST news250102087 Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital have found that one-quarter of severe asthma attacks could be prevented if only patients consistently took their medication as prescribed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-medication-severe-asthma.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:36:22 EST news242912175 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are recruiting volunteers with asthma for a study of whether taking vitamin D can make asthma medication more effective. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-uic-effects-vitamin-d-asthma.html Medical research Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:28:01 EST news241763274 Children who started eating fish before nine months of age are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, but face a higher risk if they were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life or their mother took paracetamol during pregnancy. Those are the key findings from a large-scale Swedish study published in the December issue of Acta Paediatrica. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-babies-fish-months-pre-school-wheeze.html Health Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:55:11 EST news241181703 Do pharmaceutical ads educate patients and improve health -- or merely spur drug sales? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-direct-to-consumer-drug-ads-tv.html Health Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:31:46 EST news235236697 There is growing use of financial incentives in many countries to reward primary care practitioners who improve the quality of their services. After reviewing all available data in a Cochrane Systematic Review, a team of researchers found insufficient evidence to either support or refute the practice. They conclude that policymakers need to proceed with caution before setting up an incentive scheme and think carefully about the way it is designed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-proceed-caution-financial-incentives-doctors.html Health Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:19:54 EST news234587966 Formoterol, a new generation asthma medication, shows great promise for improving fat and protein metabolism, say Australian researchers, who have tested this effect in a small sample of men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-asthma-drug-metabolism.html Medical research Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:34:38 EST news226478064