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New Treatments Improve Control for Severe Asthma
Friday, March 20th, 2009Over just one decade, new asthma medications and tools have significantly improved the management of this serious airway disease.
When compared to children treated in the mid-’90s, children with severe asthma during 2004 to 2007 were less likely to need oral steroids and rescue inhalers, and their lung function scores were improved, according to a study [...]
Asthma sufferers must go “green” on inhalers this week
Monday, December 29th, 2008Asthma sufferers must go “green” on inhalers this week
With 2008 drawing close, people with asthma and other respiratory ailments only have a few days before the last of the inhalers that use ozone-depleting chemical disappear from pharmacy shelves and are replaced with new “green” devices.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With 2008 drawing close, people with asthma and [...]
Swimmer Jessica Hardy’s Competitors Are Permitted to Use Similar Asthma Drugs
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008U.S. Olympic swimmer Jessica Hardy tested positive for the asthma medication Clenbuterol in both A and B samples at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., on July 1 and 4, 2008.
Clenbuterol is a bronchodilator belonging to a class of drugs known as beta-2 adrenergic agonists or long-acting beta-2 adrenergic agonist (LABA) . Clenbuterol is [...]
