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Farm Milk Reduces Childhood Asthma and Allergies but Raw Consumption is Unsafe

Drinking farm milk can protect children against asthma and hayfever, according to a study of nearly 15,00..., whether they were breastfed and any allergies or asthma problems affecting the child or their family. Allergy- related blood tests were also carried out o...

Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

...-income African-American high school students with asthma who participated in a specially-designed, web-base... restricted activity, and less hospitalization for asthma during a 12-month follow-up period, as compared to non-participating asthmatic students. Christine...

Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

...o) 23 months of age without a history of wheeze or asthma warrants use of FluMist in this population as well." It also said it would continue to monitor the drug in younger patients if approved. FluMist competes with injectable flu vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis' Sanofi Pasteur uni...

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

...US may soon impact the quality of patient care for asthma and other allergic diseases, according to a repor...han 20 percent of the population. The incidence of asthma alone has more than tripled over the past 25 years and currently affects more than 22 million Americ...

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis

Bronchiolitis, a wheezing much like asthma in adults, is responsible for many hospital admissions of infants. It is the commonest cause of hospital admission in this age group. There are two drugs in general use to treat this condition, epinephrine and albuterol, and there is some controv...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...ients, 69 percent of RA patients and 46 percent of asthma patients. Furthermore, 62 percent of UC patients r...ients, 52 percent of RA patients and 25 percent of asthma patients. More than four out of five people (84 percent) with UC say they worry about the long-ter...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...mpany said its two best-selling drugs - Advair for asthma and Avandia for type 2 diabetes - performed well. Total sales of Advair, or Seretide as it is known in Europe, were up 11% to 835m, and sales of Avandia grew 19% to 414m. It strongly repudiates the study, but a previous study by the GSK itself had ...

Electronic Nose to Diagnose the Severity of Asthma

...vice which may be used to diagnose the severity of asthma in patients . The researchers at Leiden University...red the "smell prints" of 20 people with diagnosed asthma (half with severe asthma and half with mild disease) and 20 people without asthma to see if the elec...

Rise in Cigarette Use may Elucidate Asthma Epidemic in Children

A recent research has found that the asthma epidemic in children may be explained by the rise ...hma and Immunology (ACAAI). The pervasiveness of asthma has amplified no less than threefold during the past several decades, but the cause for this remains...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...ore likely to have persistent or severe persistent asthma than their slimmer counterparts. The study was... Researchers found that compared to non-overweight asthma patients, obese patients (BMI=30) were more likely to report having continuous symptoms, had more ER...

Combo Therapy may Be Highly Beneficial in Asthma Control

A new study has found that combination asthma therapy, SYMBICORT leads to significant improvemen...L) and greater patient-reported satisfaction with asthma treatment, versus its monocomponents (budesonide or formoterol or placebo). SYMBICORT is a recentl...

Use of Inhaled Steroids on Daily Basis may Not Control Childhood Asthma

...e of inhaled steroids may not be enough to control asthma in some children. Dr. Gregory Sawicki insists ...that a study of 914 children with mild to moderate asthma has shown that over a period of one-year, children who used inhaled steroid consistently were 20 per...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

A new study has found that obese patients with asthma are more likely to have severe asthma when compared to those who are not overweight . The study was conducted by a team of researchers i...

Minority Women in LA County Have Higher Rates of Chronic Disease Than Whites

...abetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, arthritis, asthma and depression than men. Minority women are at higher risk for many of the conditions. Black women in Los Angeles County have the highest mortality rate of any group. In addition, more than half of black women are at risk of developing cardiovascul...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

...ed procedure for the treatment of asthma. Severe asthma patients who underwent bronchial thermoplasty showed significant improvements in asthma control, pulmonary function and quality of life. There was also lesser use of rescue medications. Th...

Apple Juice may Help to Keep Childhood Asthma at Bay

...ir kids fruit consumption and whether they had any asthma symptoms. The study found that although there wa...uice intake and a reduced possibility of an actual asthma diagnosis, there was a strong link wheezing and drinking the juice. Researchers found that kids wh...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...nsmokers. People with health conditions, like asthma become more sick if they smoke. Tobacco dependence creates a chronic relapsing condition as a result of nicotine addiction and may require medical management. Besides all these health implications smoking is a very expensive habit ! Seconda...

FDA Approves ZYFLO CR(TM) (Zileuton) for Chronic Treatment of Asthma

...itors for the prophylaxis and chronic treatment of asthma in adults and children 12 years of age and older. ...d for use in the reversal of bronchospasm in acute asthma attacks, but can be continued during acute exacerbations of asthma. Leukotrienes are inflammatory me...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

...A survey of 1,812 patients with moderate-to-severe asthma revealed that the disease was not controlled in 5... of uncontrolled asthmatics reported having had an asthma attack during which they feared for their life," said Stephen P. Peters, M.D., Ph.D., lead author an...

Unhealthy Lungs Linked to Hostility?

... lung function. The condition persisted even after asthma and smoking were ruled out as possible causes of lung dysfunction. In a study of 4,629 Black and White 18-30 year olds from four metropolitan areas (sampled from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in (Young) Adults Study cohort (CARDIA), psycholo...

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