Patients suffering from asthma and resistant to steroids experience repeated asthma attacks and the risks of death are greater for such patients.
According to researchers from King’s College London, vitamin D3 can substantially improve the responsiveness of these patients to steroid treatment to offer a hope of an improvement in their condition.
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June 7, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a new study presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), people suffering from asthma and osteoarthritis can stop taking steroids within a period of 18 months of bariatric surgery.
It is important to note here that the Agency for Healthcare Research [...]
June 1, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and other institutions, children suffering with asthma and continuing to have symptoms while making use of low-dose inhaled corticosteroids can expect benefit from increasing the dosage or adding one of two asthma drugs.
Results of the study, called BADGER (Best ADd-on therapy Giving [...]
May 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Extremely preterm babies born at 25 weeks or less in a normal gestation period of 40 weeks face abnormal lung function and are at a higher risk to have a diagnosis of asthma than their full-term peers.
The finding was disclosed after the researchers followed a national cohort of extremely preterm infants [...]
May 18, 2010 | Posted in
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According to results reported in the second issue for January of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a publication of the American Thoracic Society, nitric oxide (NO) level in the exhaled breath of an individual suffering from asthma can portend worsening of asthma symptoms besides signifying an imminent [...]
May 12, 2010 | Posted in
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An antibiotic made by sanofi-aventis but not presently used for treating asthma, Telithromycin, can be used to treat patients suffering from attacks of acute asthma. The antibiotic was recently labeled by researchers as a prospective new method for helping asthma patients.
This antibiotic can speed up the recovery time by three days of [...]
May 5, 2010 | Posted in
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According to researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, girls and children exposed to tobacco smoke respond particularly well to montelukast (Singulair).
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Nathan Rabinovitch, MD, and his colleagues were able to identify two biomarkers that could help physicians to predict even more precisely which patients would benefit [...]
May 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Parents of asthmatic children usually scramble to plug in the device supplying medications for easing symptoms of the respiratory disease when an asthma attack strikes.
Though the device, electronic nebulizer, has long been recommended by practitioners, University of Florida clinical pharmacist Leslie Hendeles wants parents to know that there is a device that can deliver the [...]
April 27, 2010 | Posted in
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According to a recently concluded study, quick relief can be attained after an asthma attack with a relatively new type of antibiotic being identified. It was, however, noted that more research is necessary in the future before the antibiotic can be prescribed.
Asthma is a chronic condition that tends to affect [...]
April 17, 2010 | Posted in
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Patients suffering from the severe form of asthma and insensitive to steroids need less of the medication besides spending less time in the hospital while using intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in conjunction with steroids, as per a research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Erwin Gelfand, M.D., a pediatric immunology [...]
April 13, 2010 | Posted in
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