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Doctors Predict an Asthma Epidemic Triggered by Thunderstorms

...resulting from Britain's heatwave could trigger an asthma epidemic//. Researchers have verified the long time complaints of asthma sufferers who have claimed that their condition worsened during thunderstorms. Research has reveal...

Long Term Exposure to Lab Animals Increases Immunity against Asthma

...ved that early exposure to certain animals prevent asthma and allergies. It was found that lab workers who f...Medicine. It supports the hygiene hypothesis of asthma and allergic diseases. This hypothesis says that naturally occurring infections and microbes might e...

New Cooperative Research Center for Allergic Disease

...t focuses on diagnosing the biological markers for asthma and other allergic diseases and thereby identifyin...n between eczema in infants and the development of asthma later in life, a disease that can be far more debilitating.’ The researchers' goal is to identify ...

Preventive Measures Proved Ineffective in Allergic Children

...e ineffective in children with a family history of asthma and wheezing – research finds. was modifying a...over 600 newborn children with a family history of asthma in western and south-western Sydney. Participants were tracked from their birth to the age of five i...

Allergies and Asthma- Cause Still Unknown

...ary changes does not stop children from developing asthma or eczema as was earlier believed//. This resear...ut things that can be done to prevent the onset of asthma in children." The results only show that parents should not blame themselves for failing to help t...

Clinicians Participating In the Pharmaceutical-Sponsored Trails Tend To Prescribe Their Drugs

...cal trial. The trail was to test the effect of the asthma medicines on the patients. It compared the result with that of the control (non-trial-conducting) practices in Funen County, Denmark. The result was that these trails increased the use of the sponsor’s medication. Hence in conclusion the researchers ...

Inhaler Linked To Asthma Deaths

...related deaths per year, in the US were linked to asthma inhalers containing the drugs salmeterol or formot...aceuticals) were 3.5 times more likely to die from asthma and 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized (whether or not death resulted), compared with those ta...

Passive Smoking Worsens Allergies

...tion in the United States representing allergists, asthma specialists, clinical immunologists, allied health professionals and others with a special interest in the research and treatment of allergic disease. Allergy/immunology specialists are pediatric or internal medicine physicians who have elected an ...

New Technique to Identify Respiratory Problems in Children

... can be used to detect other lung diseases such as asthma and chronic lung disease in children. The advantage of this technique is that the children can be given appropriate treatment before irreversible lung damage has occurred. Helena Shovelton, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said that mo...

Administration of Fish Drug for Asthma Patients Begins in Andhra

The administration of the wonder fish medicine for asthma patients began here Thursday amid a raging controversy over its efficacy //. Hundreds of people were seen standing in queues for their turn to take fish medicine, renamed as fish 'prasadam' or holy offering by Bathini Goud family to avoid any contr...

Asthma care in Canada taken care of by Hamilton!

...rt that praises Hamilton- area hospitals for great asthma care //. This was based on the fact that majority of cases are admitted there and they return to the emergency department within 28 days of being discharged. In the words of Dr. Malcolm Sears, research director of the Firestone Institute for Re...

'Fishy' Medicine Stirs Controversy

Hyderabad, June 6. Even as asthma patients from different parts of India have begun ...or the last couple of years. An estimated 40,000 asthma patients took the fish medicine last year. This estimate was based on the number of murrel fish supp...

Breathing Exercises Scores Over Inhalers

A report on asthma and exercises says, for people with mild asthma, s... body exercise), but found to give same changes in asthma therapy. Dr. C. A. Slader, from the University of Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues suggests, ...

Asthma Could be Combated by Breathing Exercises

...scores remained unchanged in both groups, but good asthma control was maintained and inhaler use was reduced. However, there were no changes in lung function or airway responsiveness in either group, the study said. (Source: IANS News)...

Breathing Exercises A Boon To Asthma Patients

...scores remained unchanged in both groups, but good asthma control was maintained even though inhaler use was reduced. There were no changes in lung function or airway responsiveness in either group. As both groups came to depend less on medication by the end of the study, despite the differences in the t...

Alberta pharmacists vested with authority to prescribe

... program can prescribe medicines for ailments like asthma and high blood pressure. This is slated to spruce up the health-care dispensing system, by making it efficient. Different schools of thought abound regarding how equipped the pharmacists will be to decide the drug, but opinion prevails, that pharma...

Tobacco Deadly In Any Form

... is also the major cause of emphysema, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases. Dr Catherine Le Galès-Camus, Assistant Director-General, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, WHO pointed out that tobacco is now a major contributory factor in global chronic disease epidemic. ...

Spacers Score Over Nebulizers in Childhood Asthma Treatment

Spacers and nebulizers-- two treatment methods for asthma attacks are found to be equal in staving off hospi...ns that help ‘open’ the lungs to ease breathing in asthma attacks. The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Coc...

Children Having An Early Exposure To Cats May Develop Eczema

...ema at age 1 might end up having a reduced risk of asthma or other allergic diseases later in life, Dr. Mora...dings do seem to add more questions about pets and asthma and allergies," she said. "Since there are a lot of contradictory data out there already, clearly it...

Asthma Risk Related To Decreased Fruit and Vitamin C consumption

...k indicates that people suffering from symptomatic asthma eat less fruit and have decreased intake of vitami...rage was 132.1 gm per day by people suffering from asthma as compared to 149.1 gm per day by their healthy counterparts. The risk was lesser in people who con...

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