Cholesterol-lowering Drugs May Worsen Asthma Cholesterol-lowering medications may help millions fight heart disease, but this class of drugs may worsen asthma control, according to a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 3-8. In...
Allergies & Asthma In Children: Research Highlights New Interventions, Recommendation
Asthma-Related Hospital Readmissions 50 Percent Greater in Single-Parent Households Financial strain and competing priorities at home may contribute to greater number of hospital readmissions of children with...
since people with asthma have the same chances of having kids as people without it and asthma dosnt kill off enoff people to acctully make us evolve past it. so and this goes for any diesseas please dont go into specifics and just go with the current question. and im talking in thousands of...
Researchers studying the first national quality measure for hospitalized children have found that no matter how strictly a health care institution followed the criteria, it had no actual impact on patient outcomes. The scientists examined 30 hospitals with 37,267 children admitted for asthma...
Kids with diabetes who also have asthma find it more difficult to keep their blood glucose (sugar) under control than children with diabetes who do not have asthma, researchers from Kaiser Permanente Southern California reported in the journal Pediatrics. The authors added that 10.9% of 1,994...
Belly fat, known clinically as central obesity, has been linked to the development of asthma in a new study. The findings, which were presented at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Amsterdam, have shown central obesity as a risk factor for the disease. Excess abdominal fat...
I know smoking is dangerous and stupid, but I'm just wondering if you have bad asthma, is it safe ? Will smoking trigger an asthma attack ? (No I'm not going to start smoking if it is safe, I'm just curious.)
Wheezy toddlers who have a sensitivity to house dust mites are more at risk of developing asthma by the age of 12, a University of Melbourne led study has shown. Children aged one two years with a family history of allergy, who had a positive skin prick test to house dust mites, had a higher...
Geneticists in the US have identified a new gene uniquely linked to asthma in African Americans; a variant of the gene called PYHIN1 that is absent in European Americans. The new national collaboration also confirmed four other "trans-ethnic" asthma genes revealed in a European study...
Babies fed only on breast milk up to the age of six months have a lower risk of developing asthma-related symptoms in early childhood, and this appears to be independent of infectious and allergic diseases, according to a study by researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in The...
Feeding a baby on only breast milk and for up to 6 months after birth can reduce their risk of developing asthma-related symptoms in early childhood, according to new research. The study, which is published online 21 July 2011 in the European Respiratory Journal, looked at the impact of the...
Placebos are "dummy pills" often used in research trials to test new drug therapies and the "placebo effect" is the benefit patients receive from a treatment that has no active ingredients. Many claim that the placebo effect is a critical component of clinical practice. But whether or not...
The GAAPP (Global Allergy and Asthma Patient Platform) is a newly formed international initiative aimed to efficiently fight the rapidly proliferating diseases of asthma and allergies, and to ease management of the diseases for patients. It was founded in Istanbul, Turkey and its registered...
A West Drayton man was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court last Friday (24 June 2011) to 12 months' imprisonment for possessing 800 counterfeit Seretide 250 Evohalers, used in the treatment of asthma. Premal Gandesha pleaded guilty on 13 June 2011 to charges of importing a medicine from outside the...
Research into how Scottish health boards are adhering to mandatory standards of care for children and young people with asthma reveals a 'shocking' complacency, according to Asthma UK Scotland. The survey, published yesterday (27 June), was carried out by Healthcare Improvement Scotland and...
A rarely prescribed asthma drug is easier to use and just as effective as conventional treatment with inhalers, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers followed 650 patients with chronic asthma for...