News tagged with asthma therapy

Alternative therapies may leave asthmatics gasping

Approximately 13 percent of parents turn to alternative therapies to treat their children's asthma, according to a new study from the Université de Montréal. The findings, published recently in the Canadian Respiratory Jo ...

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created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Estrogen-only HRT may increase risk of asthma after menopause

Oestrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may increase the risk of developing asthma after the menopause, suggests a large scale study published ahead of print in the journal Thorax.

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'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat patients

Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland.

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks — and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can ...

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created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Acid reflux without symptoms does not worsen asthma

A commonly used treatment for acid reflux does not improve asthma symptoms or control in patients who do not have symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux (GER), according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, ...

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