Pharmaxis Research Programs Highlighted at European Respiratory Societ... ( SYDNEY Australia Oct. 3 /Xinhua--...)

Pharmaxis Research Programs Highlighted at European Respiratory Society Congress

Date:10/2/2008

SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 3 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis (ASX: PXS, NASDAQ: PXSL) has announced that researchers will present 12 abstracts from its respiratory disease program at the 2008 European Respiratory Society Congress (ERS) being held in Berlin from the 4th to the 8th October. The ERS brings together many of the world's top respiratory researchers and clinicians to hear latest advances in clinical diagnosis and treatment.

A comprehensive program of research will be presented in ERS symposiums and poster sessions relating to the lung challenge product, Aridol, and the mucus clearing agent, Bronchitol.

In a poster session Professor Di Bilton, Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK, will detail results of a successful randomized, placebo- controlled trial of inhaled mannitol (Bronchitol) in patients with bronchiectasis.

Other key ERS program events from the Pharmaxis respiratory disease program include:

-- The use of inhaled mannitol (Aridol) for assessing airway disease

-- Direct versus indirect airway challenges

-- Using a dry powder of mannitol (Aridol) versus methacholine as

challenge for routine practice

-- Inhaled mannitol (Bronchitol) as treatment for children with cystic

fibrosis

-- Implications for everyday practice

-- Infectious lung diseases including tuberculosis

-- A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of inhaled

mannitol(Bronchitol) in patients with bronchiectasis

-- Cough and airway hyperresponsiveness

-- A comparison of inhaled mannitol (Aridol), methacholine

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