Archive for 2006/08


Antioxidants May Protect Against Tick-borne Illness

For hikers, campers and others who enjoy the outdoors, summer can bring concerns about tick bites and related illnesses such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Researchers are investigating the role that antioxidants -- alpha-lipoic acid and potentially others like green tea and vitamins C and E, for example - might play in preventing or treating the deadly rickettsia bacteria. [click link for full article]
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08/13/2006 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Medicines Regulator Informs Healthcare Professionals About Prescribing UK Beclometasone Dipropionate CFC-free Inhalers For Asthma

The Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has written to healthcare professionals today about theprescribing of CFC-free inhalers to treat asthma. There are two CFC-free inhalers available on the UK market which contain the active substance beclometasone dipropionate, called Clenil Modulite and Qvar. However these two inhalers have been designed differently and provide different quantities of the active drug to the lungs. [click link for full article]
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08/12/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Monitoring Study Will Complement Previously Announced Clinical Development Program Of A Test For Diagnosing Tuberculosis

Xenomics, Inc. (OTCBulletin Board: XNOM; FWB:XE7), the source of next-generation medical DNAdiagnostic technologies, today announced patient enrollment has begun atItaly's National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani"for a tuberculosis monitoring study using Xenomics' proprietary TransrenalDNA (Tr-DNA) diagnostic technology. [click link for full article]
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08/12/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Asthma / Respiratory News from Medical News Today

Latest Asthma / Respiratory news updated throughout the day, every day
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08/12/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Penn Researchers Use The Abdomen To Deliver Oxygen To Assist Ailing Lungs

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have helped develop a technique in animal models for using the abdominal cavity to exchange gas, supplementing the function normally performed by the lungs. The goal is to provide a way to support patients who are on a mechanical ventilator, suffering from reversible lung failure, but who need extra time and support to heal -- beyond what a ventilator can provide -- in order to survive. [click link for full article]
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08/11/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Airway Inflamation Caused By Trauma Of Chronic Cough

New findings suggest that airway trauma, caused by the act of coughing, may cause inflammation associated with chronic cough. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School conducted a cross-sectional, controlled study of 24 respiratory patients with chronic cough. The patients were split into four groups: intrapulmonary diseases, extrapulmonary diseases, unexplained cough, and four additional volunteers provided the nonsmoking, asymptomatic controls. [click link for full article]
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08/09/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Hospitalization Varies Among Young Minorities With Asthma

A new, cross-sectional study reveals that health-care utilization of Puerto Rican and African-American children, residing in the same community, are disproportionate. Researchers from New England screened 6,554 children for asthma using a parental survey. Medicaid and Supplementary Children's Health Insurance Plan provided health-care utilization data that were collected for each child for the 12 preceding months. [click link for full article]
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08/09/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Occupational Asthma Underdiagnosed By Clinicians

Clinicians may fail to recognize and effectively manage occupational asthma (OA) in newly diagnosed patients, according to a new study. Researchers from Duke and Stanford Universities analyzed the electronic medical records, pulmonary function test results, and questionnaire responses of 197 adults with newly diagnosed asthma at a California VA hospital. [click link for full article]
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08/09/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Puerto Rican And African-American Children Show Different Patterns Of Asthma Care

Asthma has been on the rise for the past two decades, and minority populations have an especially high prevalence. A study in the August issue of the journal Chest suggests that Puerto Rican children with asthma make more clinic visits than African-American children with similar disease severity, but that the latter spend more time in the hospital for asthma. [click link for full article]
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08/09/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Penn Researchers Use The Abdomen To Deliver Oxygen To Assist Ailing Lungs

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have helped develop a technique in animal models for using the abdominal cavity to exchange gas, supplementing the function normally performed by the lungs. The goal is to provide a way to support patients who are on a mechanical ventilator, suffering from reversible lung failure, but who need extra time and support to heal -- beyond what a ventilator can provide -- in order to survive. [click link for full article]
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08/09/2006 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

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