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Too Few Americans Getting Preventive Health Screenings

...r obese adults. ? Only 49 percent of people with asthma said they were told how to change their environment, and 28 percent reported receiving an asthma management plan. Asthma causes about 500,000 hospitalizations annually. ? Only 48 percent of adul...

Asthma Sufferers Favor Quick Relief Over Long-term Control

People who currently have asthma are much more likely to rely on drugs that offer q...ederal study further found that among people whose asthma was active when surveyed: ? More than one-fourth reported having a peak flow meter at home for mea...

WBC in Lung Produces Histamine: Study

...amine acts as a link between airway infections and asthma and bronchitis, which are associated with allergy....t upper respiratory infections often trigger acute asthma attacks. "We hypothesized that an infection in the airway would release histamine from mast cells, a...

Red Algal Bloom – Gloom Time for Asthmatic

... able to comprehend the implication of red tide on asthma sufferers during a study of 97 asthmatics. Tests w...m. In the words of researchers, “People who have asthma need to be aware of the red tides, and plan their outdoor activities accordingly. We now have the sc...

Increased Salt Intake Aggravates Asthma

...f salt. A recent study suggests salt intake and asthma may also be linked.Mickleborough and Fogarty, two ...natively, dietary sodium may not have an effect on asthma in the general population." "Collectively, the studies to date investigating the potential relatio...

Ethnic Background Influences Health, Study

...ebanon portrayed significantly lower incidences of asthma as compared to the rest of the lot....

YouTube’s Latest Use-Offering Medical Advic

...ients. Last year a video clipping on how to use an asthma inhaler properly was launched in the website. Bu...a doctor for minor matters. The effective use of asthma inhalers, smear testing, blood sugar testing , winter flu vaccination and cervical screening are amo...

Asthma Warning As Bushfires Burn

...ve asthma, you should make sure you have a written asthma management plan and plenty of medication on hand, and, if you live in a bushfire-prone zone, make asthma management part of your fire safety survival plan. 'You will protect your health best by not stayi...

Common Cold Virus Leads to Death in Lung Transplant Patients

...sms underlying rhinovirus-induced exacerbations of asthma and COPD.” They continued: “These exciting new data raise the possibility that patients with asthma and other patients with chronic airway disease are unusually susceptible to rhinovirus infection lea...

Two Lung Cancer Patients Die Due To HRV

...sms underlying rhinovirus-induced exacerbations of asthma and COPD.” They continued: "These exciting new data raise the possibility that patients with asthma and other patients with chronic airway disease are unusually susceptible to rhinovirus infection lea...

Excessive Dietary Fat can Lead to Asthma

... that this connection can lead to the formation of asthma and other inflammatory diseases whose incidence has increased two fold in the past fifteen years. Professor Charles Mackay, the institute's immunology program director told News Limited, "We have shown that a fatty acid binding molecule that normall...

New Ban on Smoking to Be Considered

...e of bronchitis, pneumonia, coughing and wheezing, asthma attacks, middle ear infection, cot death, and possibly cardiovascular and neurobiological impairment in children. These findings were confirmed by the UK’s Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH), which reviewed the evidence in 2004 follo...

Painkillers may Reduce the Risk Enlarged Prostate

...lcers, disruption of the blood clotting system and asthma attacks in susceptible people. "We would not recommend that every man go out and take aspirin, but if they are already taking it regularly for other reasons, our findings suggest another benefit as well," St Sauver said. He said the reason why ...

Risk Of Prostate Enlargement Reduced By Aspirin

...lcers, disruption of the blood clotting system and asthma attacks. SI...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

...suffering from LAM, but many are misdiagnosed with asthma or emphysema or remain undiagnosed. Krymskaya explains "the key to combating this disease is to educate physicians to know how to diagnose LAM and treat it in its earliest stages before the damage to the lung is done and a transplant is needed. A bio...

City Kids With Asthma Lose Out on Preventive Treatment

... only one in five inner-city children with chronic asthma //gets enough medicine to control dangerous flare-...er-reliance on fast-acting 'rescue' drugs after an asthma attack strikes and to more complications and increased risk of death. The scientists interviewed ...

Dogs May Help Prevent Kids From Wheezing

...ted with a higher risk of developing allergies and asthma later in life. The researchers found that infants who live in a home with two or more dogs and a high level of certain types of a bacterial substance were a third less likely to develop wheezing in the first year of life than those who didn't live ...

Medication Not Available On Time To Inner-city Children

Inner-city children suffering from chronic asthma do not get proper treatment and medication on time...er-reliance on fast-acting “rescue” drugs after an asthma attack strikes and to more complications and increased risk of death. The scientists interviewed p...

New Lung Heating Device can Help Asthma Patients

...constrict making it hard to breathe. At its worst, asthma can be fatal. Though asthma can't be cured, it can be managed with proper treatment. People with asthma can lead normal, active ...

Southern California Wildfires Pose Health Risks to Children

...nonasthmatics share similar symptoms as those with asthma Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2006– In October of 2003, mu...ern California (USC) report that residents without asthma in wildfire-endangered regions suffered as much as those with asthma. The findings appear in the D...

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