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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Babies exposed to cigarette smoke before birth or during the first months afterwards run a greater risk of developing asthma and allergy. This according to a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. It is a well known fact that babies are harmed by tobacco smoke in numerous ways, but it has always been difficult to separate the effects of the mother smoking during...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
People with asthma who regularly use salmeterol are at a greater risk of non-fatal serious adverse events than those using placebos. This conclusion was arrived at by a team of Cochrane Researchers who drew together data from 26 trials involving 62,630 patients.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) announced the positive results from a Phase 2 study of the lead investigational compound GSK961081 ('081) in the inhaled bifunctional muscarinic antagonist-beta2 agonist (MABA) program. The MABA program was licensed to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2005 under the terms of the companies' Strategic Alliance Agreement as a potential treatment for patients with chronic obstructive...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Indoor air quality has a greater impact on health than outdoor air quality, as North American adults spend almost 90% of their time indoors. Exposure to chemical and biological contaminants and possible cancer-causing agents is possible, and can contribute to the risk of developing respiratory and neurologic symptoms, allergies, asthma and lung cancer.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Tuberculosis may call to mind Old West consumptives and early 20th-century sanatoriums, yet according to the World Health Organization, the disease took the lives of more than 1.5 million people worldwide in 2006. In the United States alone, thousands of new cases are reported annually making TB an enduring menace.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
RESPIRATORY CARE RESPIRATORY disease is a major health problem and is on the rise in the UK. It is the second biggest killer in the country, with one in five people dying from the disease.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant to taper off drug use when less might be best. A report on the study, led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers, appears in the July issue of Pediatrics.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
An asthma-management study published in today's edition of the Medical Journal of Australia highlights the valuable role pharmacists can play in primary health care and chronic disease self-management, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). An abstract of the study Data-mining of medication records to improve asthma management, conducted by the University of Tasmania's School of...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Lawyers for those who worked at the World Trade Center in New York after the 2001 terrorist attacks say 67 percent suffer from respiratory disease. Papers filed in court Tuesday claim nearly half, 45 percent, have gastrointestinal problems, the New York Post reported.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
"Racial/Ethnic Differences in Asthma Prevalence: The Role of Housing and Neighborhood Environments," Journal of Health and Social Behavior: The study looks at the prevalence of asthma among 10 racial and ethnic groups in New York City and how housing and neighborhood conditions can contribute to a disparity in prevalence.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Children whose immune systems rebound after treatment with potent anti-viral drugs for HIV infection face an increased risk of developing asthma, said a federally funded consortium of researchers led by those from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
By Chauvin, Alyssa Rupley, Laurel; Meyers, Katie; Johnson, Kristin; Eason, Jane Research Corner INTRODUCTION In today's medical system, limited resources are available for patient care.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a public health problem of substantial magnitude, and remains the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases, with an incidence ranging from 1.6 to 10.6 per 1,000 adults per year in Europe. Owing to demographic changes, elderly patients now represent about 50% of CAP patients in western countries.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Biomass fuels in the form of wood and agricultural wastes are a significant source of direct human energy consumption worldwide. Household use of these fuels dominates demand in many developing countries, particularly in rural areas. As half of the world's population still lives in rural areas, biomass fuels remain the main source of energy for most of mankind.
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http://www.thothbook.net (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Asthma is a respiratory disease that causes inflammation and narrowing of the airways. The pediatric asthma refers to asthma in children. Asthma is commonly seen in children and is a major cause of school absenteeism and hospitalizations. Children with asthma can breathe normally most of the time, but when they find a substance that can [...]
