Archive for the 'Respiratory & Asthma' Category


Police Did Not Help Girl With Asthma Who Subsequently Died

Carmen Delgado was driving her asthma-suffering daughter Briana to hospital and crashed her car into another vehicle; police officer Alfonso Mendez told the mother he did not know CPR and could not help - leaving the girl to die. The New York Police Department, whose officers are ALL trained in CPR, has suspended Mendez without pay. The girl's funeral is scheduled for today...
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09/01/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Our Lungs Are ‘Innately Prone’ To Silicosis And Related Diseases According To New Discovery

For the nearly 2 million U.S. workers exposed to silica dust each year, a new discovery may help prevent or treat the development of chronic lung diseases related to this exposure...
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09/01/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Glenmark Announces The Discovery Of A Novel Chemical Entity ‘GRC 17536′, A TRPA1 Receptor Antagonist, A Potential First-in-Class Molecule Globally

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced the discovery of a Novel Chemical Entity(NCE) 'GRC 17536'. The new NCE program is targeting TRPA1 receptor antagonists for pain and respiratory disorders...
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09/01/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Pain / Anesthetics | Trackback | Comments Off

El Camino Hospital Offers Revolutionary New Asthma Treatment

El Camino Hospital has been selected as one of the first hospitals in Northern California to offer bronchial thermoplasty , a new medical treatment for the most severe cases of asthma...
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08/31/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Study Points To Genetic Driver Of Severe Asthma

Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology...
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08/30/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

In Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Vitamin D May Treat And Prevent Allergic Reaction To Mold

Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma, according to researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Results of the study, led by Jay Kolls, M.D., Ph.D...
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08/29/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Cystic Fibrosis | Trackback | Comments Off

Asthma Symptoms And Attacks In Children Increased By Post-Katrina Mold

The mold that spread like a rash across post-Katrina New Orleans did more than destroy homes - it made children with asthma sick. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, experts point to increased sensitivities to environmental asthma triggers as a risk for more severe asthma symptoms and attacks in hundreds of New Orleans children. Today the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc...
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08/27/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Lotus Pharmaceuticals Enter R-Bambuterol(R) Clinical Trial I

Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company"), a growing developer, manufacturer and seller of medicine and drugs in the People's Republic of China (the "PRC"), announced that it has entered R-Bambuterol(R) Clinical Trial I on-schedule and is on-track to complete in six months...
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08/27/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

CDC Updates Estimates Of US Flu Deaths

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that updated estimates of flu deaths in the US in recent decades show that rather than widely cited annual figure of 36,000, which is too high anyway, the estimated numbers have fluctuated from as low as 3,500 to as high as nearly 49,000, depending on which flu viruses have been prominent...
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08/27/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Flu / Cold / SARS | Trackback | Comments Off

Vaccine Has Cut Child Cases Of Bacterial Pneumonia, Says Study

The number of children admitted to English hospitals with bacterial pneumonia decreased by a fifth in the two years following the introduction of a vaccine to combat the disease, according to a new study published in the journal Thorax. Bacterial pneumonia is a serious illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that mostly affects babies, young children and elderly people...
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08/27/2010 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

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