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Monday, 29 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Asthma is one the main causes of pediatric hospital admissions, both nationally and locally. Last year, there were 900 asthma-related visits to the Pediatric Emergency Department at Golisano Children's Hospital. |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News AstraZeneca and MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have announced an special worldwide agreement to develop and commercialize Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB), MAP Pharmaceuticals' proprietary nebulized formulation of budesonide. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News The following is GlaxoSmithKline's statement regarding recommendations of a combined Advisory Committee to the FDA on the use of asthma medicines containing long-acting beta agonists, including GSK's Serevent (salmeterol) and Advair (salmeterol/fluticasone proprionate). |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials MedImmunehas announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with chronic asthma to determine the safety of subcutaneous dosing of a humanized monoclonal antibody (MAb) that targets the interleukin-5 receptor (IL-5R). |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Boys with asthma who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke have higher degrees of hyperactivity, aggression, depression and other behavioral problems, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News A new study has found that a school-based asthma education program conducted in the Oakland, California school district was shown to decrease symptoms and increase the number of days that children who suffered from asthma were able to go to school. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Women's Health News Women can generally keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant.Budesonide sprays are the best studied and can be regarded as safe. More trials of other weighty medicines are required on the other hand. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News The need for an urgent change in asthma management is advocated this week by a group of respiratory specialists, patient representatives, GPs and paediatricians from across Europe and North America. |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
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Child Health News It is said that timing is everything, and that indeed appears to be true for autumn infants. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Raging wildfires that engulfed Southern California before this decade not only destroyed neighborhoods laying in their way, they also caused weighty health problems for many who lived outside the fires' reach. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News A new research study suggests that asthma may be over-diagnosed by up to 30 per cent in Canadian adults.The study, led by Ottawa researcher Dr. Shawn Aaron, examined 496 people from eight Canadian cities who reported receiving a diagnosis of asthma from a physician. |
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News A report on the health of New Yorkers after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 has revealed that more than 400,000 people in New York City were significantly affected. |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
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Drug Trials A new drug to treat asthma and hay fever is about to undergo trials in humans.The drug RPL554 apparently has the potential to effectively treat the respiratory diseases but without many of the side-effects most presently available drugs make. |
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
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Medical Research News Scientists in the U.S. say an athlete's capability to sweat may do more than keep the body cool but might also prevent the development of exercise-induced asthma (EIA). |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Child Health News Highly active antiretroviral therapy might increase the risk of asthma among children due to the therapy's effect on the immune system and CD4+ T cell levels, according to a study lately published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Reuters reports. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Researchers at The University of Nottingham have been awarded £2.8 million by the Wellcome Trust to develop a new drug that could easiness the suffering of hundreds of thousands of heart disease patients who are unable to take beta-blockers. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News The Melbourne drug company Biota has announced trials of a drug to treat the human rhinovirus (HRV) which is the main culprit in the regular cold.HRV is also linked to problems in asthma, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a compromised immune function. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Child Health News A Brunel University researcher suggests that chemicals in household cleaning products explains why excessive hygiene is linked to increased asthma and allergies. |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials People with asthma who regularly use salmeterol are at a greater risk of non-fatal serious adverse events than those using placebos. This conclusion was arrived at by a team of Cochrane Researchers who drew together data from 26 trials involving 62,630 patients. |
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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Medical Research News Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact on asthma control, according to new research. |
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
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Women's Health News Mothers who take fish oil supplements during the last trimester of their pregnancy could be reducing the risk of their child going on to develop asthma, claims a study published today (9th July) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88:167-175). |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials According to research by Australian scientists there is a link between childhood eczema and the onset of asthma in adults. |
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
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Medical Condition News More aggressive treatment of childhood eczema may be an significant step in preventing asthma, says a new Australian study. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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Medical Research News British scientists have discovered a link between the bowel disorder Crohn's disease and asthma. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Here are the newest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Asthma People with asthma who are taking an inhaled corticosteroid may qualify for this study at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Children whose immune systems rebound after treatment with potent anti-viral drugs for HIV infection face an increased risk of developing asthma, said a federally funded consortium of researchers led by those from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in... |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Here are the newest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Asthma If you are 18 or older, have been diagnosed with asthma for at least one year, are using an inhaled steroid for asthma, and are a non-smoker, you may qualify for this study. The research site is in Centennial, Colo. |
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials New research has shown that up to 90 per cent of people on asthma medications are using their inhalers incorrectly leading to poor asthma control, increased hospital visits and increased cost of treatment. |
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