People who supplement rescue inhalers with a second asthma medication sometimes get little relief at first, but there's good news: Those who keep trying different options often find a medication that works, according to Rutgers ...
Jul 22, 2022
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A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows that a treatment-adjustment algorithm based on lung function and symptoms in a mobile phone is useful for managing uncontrolled asthma. For fuss-free measuring of lung ...
Sep 3, 2019
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Patients with active asthma—such as any use of asthma medications, and unscheduled office or emergency visits for asthma—are at a twofold risk of having a heart attack, according to Mayo Clinic research presented at the ...
Nov 16, 2014
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New research indicates that asthma in many adolescents is not likely to involve inflammation of the airways and therefore should not be considered an allergic disease.
Jan 13, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—Research conducted at Boston Children's Hospital indicates that obesity might cause asthma via factors in the immune system and suggests a new way of treating asthma in obese people—who often respond ...
Dec 16, 2013
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(Medical Xpress) -- At nearly one in six pediatric asthma visits, antibiotics are prescribed as a remedy, despite national guidelines against the practice. Ian Paul, departments of pediatrics and public health sciences, Penn ...
Jun 1, 2011
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Modern medical science has made remarkable progress in the treatment of asthma. Inhalers containing steroids are particularly effective in preventing an asthma attack. But getting people to take these preventive medicines ...
Jun 22, 2022
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A new study has found that children from poorer or more densely populated neighborhoods were more likely to develop asthma and that Black and Hispanic children had more asthma in neighborhoods of all income levels. The study, ...
Jun 20, 2022
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Do pharmaceutical ads educate patients and improve health -- or merely spur drug sales?
Sep 14, 2011
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Digital interventions that help people take their asthma medication better, such as "smart" inhalers or text messages, may cut the risk of asthma attacks by half, finds a new review of evidence led by UCL, Queen Mary University ...
Jun 13, 2022
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