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Asthma Drugs May Prevent A Deadly Form Of Pneumonia: Study
New York: Two drugs that are used to treat asthma and allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that can kill up to 40 per cent of people who contract it, researchers have found. Influenza pneumonia results when a flu infection spreads to alveolar air sacs deep within the lungs. Normally, a flu infection does not progress that far in...
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Scientific Review Finds Asthma Drugs Suppress Child Growth
Corticosteroid drugs given via inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, according to two systematic reviews of scientific studies on the issue.
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Exercise might aid asthma control
Adults whose asthma is not fully controlled by medication might gain some benefits from adding an exercise routine to their lives.
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A new approach to asthma treatment
According to latest research drug size is the key to asthma treatment. Asthma inhalers could be made more effective if they used bigger drug particles. Researchers believe the finding could lead to less wasteful and more effective treatments for nearly 150 million people affected worldwide by this disease.
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The fatal asthma drug trial resumed
A 24-year-old woman who died after taking part in a Johns Hopkins University asthma study was not fully informed of the risks involved. A committee has been formed to investigate the death as reported to the federal government's Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP). Hexamethonium, one of the drugs administered in the study, is not approved b...
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Asthma Drugs May Prevent A Deadly Form Of Pneumonia: Study
New York: Two drugs that are used to treat asthma and allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that can kill up to 40 per cent of people who contract it, researchers have found. Influenza pneumonia results when a flu infection spreads to alveolar air sacs deep within the lungs. Normally, a flu infection does not progress that far in...
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Scientific Review Finds Asthma Drugs Suppress Child Growth
Corticosteroid drugs given via inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, according to two systematic reviews of scientific studies on the issue.
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Exercise might aid asthma control
Adults whose asthma is not fully controlled by medication might gain some benefits from adding an exercise routine to their lives.
-
A new approach to asthma treatment
According to latest research drug size is the key to asthma treatment. Asthma inhalers could be made more effective if they used bigger drug particles. Researchers believe the finding could lead to less wasteful and more effective treatments for nearly 150 million people affected worldwide by this disease.
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The fatal asthma drug trial resumed
A 24-year-old woman who died after taking part in a Johns Hopkins University asthma study was not fully informed of the risks involved. A committee has been formed to investigate the death as reported to the federal government's Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP). Hexamethonium, one of the drugs administered in the study, is not approved b...
