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Indoor Residential Air Quality Has Significant Impact On Health

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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 n ...

read more 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 n read more Sat Jul 2008 Sat Jul 2008

Yale Study Shows Why Cigarette Smoke Makes Flu, Other Viral Infections Worse

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine could explain why the cold and flu virus symptoms that are often mild and transient in non-smokers can seriously sicken smokers. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the study also identified the mechanism by which viruses and cig ...

read more A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine could explain why the cold and flu virus symptoms that are often mild and transient in non-smokers can seriously sicken smokers. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the study also identified the mechanism by which viruses and cig read more Sat Jul 2008 Sat Jul 2008

High TB Rates Among Immigrants To U.S. Highlight Need For Improved Screening, Study Says

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Immigrants arriving in the U.S. from Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America have high rates of active or latent tuberculosis, highlighting a need for improved screening of the disease, according to a CDC study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Associ ...

read more Immigrants arriving in the U.S. from Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America have high rates of active or latent tuberculosis, highlighting a need for improved screening of the disease, according to a CDC study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Associ read more Sat Jul 2008 Sat Jul 2008

Emergent Biosolutions And University Of Oxford Form Joint Venture To Develop An Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
The University of Oxford and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) has announced that they have formed a joint venture, The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium Ltd. (the "Consortium"), to further develop MVA85A, the world's most clinically advanced vaccine candidate for the prevention of tubercu ...

read more The University of Oxford and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) has announced that they have formed a joint venture, The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium Ltd. (the read more Sat Jul 2008 Sat Jul 2008

Topigen Completes Enrollment Of Phase II Study Of TPI ASM8 In Asthma

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
TOPIGEN Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing products for respiratory disorders, has announced the completion of patient enrollment in a Phase II safety and efficacy study in asthma with one of its lead product candidates, TPI ASM8. The current ...

read more TOPIGEN Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing products for respiratory disorders, has announced the completion of patient enrollment in a Phase II safety and efficacy study in asthma with one of its lead product candidates, TPI ASM8. The current read more Sat Jul 2008 Sat Jul 2008

Theravance Announces Positive Phase 2 Clinical Results In The MABA Respiratory Program For The Treatment Of COPD

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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 o ...

read more 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 o read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

More Evidence Of Long-Term Problems From Regular Salmeterol For Asthma

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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. ...

read more 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. read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Low-Sodium Advice For Asthmatics Should Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research. "Despite the clear benefit of a low-sodium diet on cardiovascular risk factors, there is no therapeutic benefit in the use of a low-sodium diet…on asthma co ...

read more Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research. read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Consumption Of Nut Products During Pregnancy Linked To Increased Asthma In Children

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Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children's risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands. ...

read more Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children's risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands. read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Genetic Samples Of Ancient Bones May Help Israeli-Palestinian-German Team Combat Tuberculosis

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Prof. Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is leading the Israel ...

read more Six-thousand year old bones excavated in Jericho may help a joint Israeli-Palestinian-German research group combat tuberculosis. According to Prof. Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is leading the Israel read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Early Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Causes Asthma And Allergy

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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 ...

read more 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 read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Efforts Seek To Address Asthma, Encourage Students To Become Pharmacists In Minority Community

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
The following summarizes efforts that seek to address racial health disparities. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Asthma Partnership will award a total of $35,000 to community-based and not-for-profit groups that work to address asthma in the community, the ...

read more The following summarizes efforts that seek to address racial health disparities. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Asthma Partnership will award a total of $35,000 to community-based and not-for-profit groups that work to address asthma in the community, the read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Indiana Health Officials Examine State's Pandemic Influenza Ethics Planning

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Information relevant to Indiana's current pandemic influenza preparedness plan was presented July 16 during a symposium convened by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, "The Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning in Indiana: What Have We Done and ...

read more Information relevant to Indiana's current pandemic influenza preparedness plan was presented July 16 during a symposium convened by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

FDA Advisory Committee Provides Opinion Of DORIBAX(TM) For The Treatment Of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee voted in favor of the efficacy and safety data for DORIBAX(TM) (doripenem for injection) for the treatment of hospital-acquired ...

read more Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee voted in favor of the efficacy and safety data for DORIBAX(TM) (doripenem for injection) for the treatment of hospital-acquired read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Cornell's Max Zhang Studies Air-Quality In Beijing During Olympics

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
As the world watches China prepare for the Olympic Games, Cornell researcher Max Zhang has his eye on less visible matters -- the particles in Beijing's air that millions breathe every day, and that many more will be breathing when they descend on the city this summer. The assistant professor in ...

read more As the world watches China prepare for the Olympic Games, Cornell researcher Max Zhang has his eye on less visible matters -- the particles in Beijing's air that millions breathe every day, and that many more will be breathing when they descend on the city this summer. The assistant professor in read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Continuous Sivelestat Sodium Hydrate Infusion Averts Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Intestinal Paralysis And Hypotension In Conscious Guinea-Pigs

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
This study examined the effects of continuous administration of sivelestat sodium hydrate (sivelestat) on guinea pigs induced with intestinal paralysis and hypotension. Findings suggest that sivelestat - a neutrophil elastase (NE) inhibitor- can effectively reduce intestinal dysfunction and at ...

read more This study examined the effects of continuous administration of sivelestat sodium hydrate (sivelestat) on guinea pigs induced with intestinal paralysis and hypotension. Findings suggest that sivelestat - a neutrophil elastase (NE) inhibitor- can effectively reduce intestinal dysfunction and at read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

The Link Between Gastric Reflux And Asthma

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. Clinicians first noted a relationship between the two diseases in t ...

read more Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. Clinicians first noted a relationship between the two diseases in t read more Wed Jul 2008 Wed Jul 2008

Working To Decode TB,

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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 ...

read more 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 read more Tue Jul 2008 Tue Jul 2008

Welsh Adventure Holiday Gives Kids With Asthma Breathing Space, UK

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
Asthma UK is inviting parents in Wales to sign their kids up for an adventure holiday with a difference this summer. From 20-26 July Llangrannog, Ceredigion will host a specialist Kick Asthma holiday, providing children and young people with asthma from 12-17 years old with an opportunity to bui ...

read more Asthma UK is inviting parents in Wales to sign their kids up for an adventure holiday with a difference this summer. From 20-26 July Llangrannog, Ceredigion will host a specialist Kick Asthma holiday, providing children and young people with asthma from 12-17 years old with an opportunity to bui read more Tue Jul 2008 Tue Jul 2008

Pediatricians Told To Taper Meds In Kids With Stable Asthma

Categorie : Asthma / Respiratory
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 i ...

read more 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 i read more Tue Jul 2008 Tue Jul 2008

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