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Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

...cluded a report of possible depression, severe and persistent asthma symptoms, sharing medication with a friend or relative, lack of a physician or health insurance and need for an inhaler....

Massive Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Hundreds of Home in Florida

...sive." One reason for the burst of wildfires: a persistent drought this spring. To mitigate the risks posed by wildfires, residents should clear property of brush, dead trees, and especially unkempt foliage growing close to their homes, says Jim Harrell, spokesman for the Florida Division of Forestry. "...

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

... therapy group, despite fewer drugs. 'We found a persistent benefit of PCI compared with optimized drug therapy,' the authors report. 'This benefit became apparent only after two years of observation, with survival curves continuously diverging up to the final follow-up after ten years.' 'This is the first,...

Where Indigenous Mothers Live Affects The Health Of Their Babies

...eed for urgent and concerted action to address the persistent inequity in the Indigenous population....

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...voiding problems (14 percent versus 2 percent) and persistent urge incontinence, the loss of urine just before feeling a strong, sudden urge to empty the bladder (27 percent versus 20 percent). Nineteen women with slings who had difficulty voiding after treatment needed surgery to correct the problem; none in t...

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

...iate their symptoms. The second is that chronic persistent smoking may have a role in the etiology of depress...the association. The results suggest that first, persistent chronic cigarette smoking predicts depressive symptoms. However, when adjusted for other factors ass...

Men With Chronic Gum Disease at Higher Risk of Tongue Cancer

...ble evidence indicates that chronic infections and persistent inflammation are associated with increased cancer risk. Although viral infections have been associated with carcinogenesis [the development of cancer], the evidence for a connection between bacterial infections and carcinogenesis is also convincing,"...

Obese People More Prone to Severe Persistent Asthma

...obese people are significantly more likely to have persistent or severe persistent asthma than their slimmer counterparts. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by ...

Combo Therapy may Be Highly Beneficial in Asthma Control

...sured HRQL in 553 patients with moderate-to-severe persistent asthma treated with one of five SYMBICORT therapies. The patients were subjected to two inhalations with SYMBICORT in one pressurised meter-dose inhaler (pMDI) 160/4.5 micrograms (mcg); budesonide pMDI 160 mcg; formoterol via dry-powder inhaler (DP...

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

...ed for inhaled steroids treatment, all of whom had persistent asthma. Whereas most of the participants in the control group reported well-controlled asthma. In the experimental group, 44 per cent of the participants reported that they had been consistently using the medicine, while in the control group, 35 p...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

... be classified as having either moderate or severe persistent asthma when compared to non-overweight people," Taylor said. "We also noted that obese patients were more likely to have less education, be unemployed and be African-American, he added. Researchers also found that frequent emergency room visits a...

Bronchial Thermoplasty: Boon to Severe Asthma Patients?

...hial thermoplasty in 32 adult subjects with severe persistent asthma who remained symptomatic despite taking regular asthma medications. Compared to patients who received only standard asthma medications, patients who received the bronchial thermoplasty procedure and standard medications showed clinically and...

Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...called gulf war illnesses, with problems including persistent fatigue, chronic headaches, joint pain and nausea. Those symptoms persist today for more than 150,000 of them, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, more than the number of troops exposed to the gases. Advocates for veterans have argued...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...reventing disease. When a patient has a high and persistent fever, we need to come up with the correct diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible particularly for those with a weakened immune system, who can die from the infection, she says. Also, different Bartonella species respond to different drugs, so ...

Mood Swings and Late Nights are Signs That Your Teenage Kid is in Love

...l level, changes included obsessive, intrusive and persistent thinking about that person, and emotional dependency on and craving for emotional union with him or her. The researchers also found that teens in love also showed extreme empathy and distorted altruism, which meant that they were willing to die for...

A Cold Shoulder to Cold - At Your Risk

...eek immediate medical attention when people suffer persistent cold or irritation in the throat. Even facial pain...breathe," he explained. Therefore, if you have a persistent cold, it is not worth ignoring it. /V...

Addictive Drugs Harms the Brain

...residue had// worn off the system there is still a persistent effect of the drug on the brain. It was found that a single dose actually distorted the neural pathways that control the sensation of craving. A single dose of morphine injected into the rat was still low on inhibition even after the drug had left ...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

...ckenpox virus, which can cause a painful and often persistent nerve inflammation called shingles. The new study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, is the first of a series of rigorous new studies designed to investigate the health effects of tai chi. Also are studies examinin...

Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance

...h or psychological comorbidities.” In other words, persistent DES symptoms can be as debilitating as other chronic illnesses and lead to larger physical and emotional health problems. There is no cure for DES, “but its irritations can most certainly be alleviated and its effects most certainly treated,” write...

Adolescents Exposed to Family Turmoil and Violence Face Stress-related Problems

...ncome and racial inequalities are so pervasive and persistent in our society. Low-income kids and especially low...nd that rural poverty constitutes greater and more persistent material deprivation than urban poverty." Source-Eurekalert...

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