Archive for 2007/07


Short Course Of Steroids Reduces Relapse In Asthma Patients

Giving patients a short course of corticosteroids after they have been discharged from hospital for an asthma attack reduces the chances of a relapse, a Cochrane Systematic Review has found. Giving the steroids also reduces their use of inhalers. The benefit lasts for about three weeks.This updated finding was drawn after reviewing data in six trials that together involved 374 people. [click link for full article]
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07/20/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Program Trains Ugandan Health Care Workers To Administer Acupuncture To People Living With HIV/AIDS, Boston Globe Reports

The Boston Globe on Monday examined the Brookline, Mass.-based Pan-African Acupuncture Project, a not-for-profit group that trains Ugandan health care workers to administer acupuncture to people living with HIV/AIDS (Jeltsen, Boston Globe, 7/16). There are about 1. [click link for full article]
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07/19/2007 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Inuit Children Suffer Lung Infections Due To Poor Indoor Air Quality, Research Finds

Inadequate ventilation and overcrowding may contribute to the high incidence of lower respiratory tract lung infections in young Inuit children. Dr. Tom Kovesi and colleagues collected data on respiratory health and indoor air quality for 49 Inuit children under 5 years of age in the Baffin Region of Nunavut. They found that lower respiratory tract infection was significantly associated with indoor carbon dioxide levels and occupancy. On average, there were 6. [click link for full article]
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07/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Mpex Pharmaceuticals Initiates Multi-Dose Clinical Trial In The U.S. With MP-376 In Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

Mpex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the initiation of a Phase 1b clinical trial with its lead compound, MP-376, in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). MP-376 is a proprietary aerosolized formulation of the antibiotic levofloxacin that is being developed for the treatment of chronic lung infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in CF patients. [click link for full article]
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07/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Research May Lead To Improved Therapeutics Against Asthma

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to elucidate the crystal structure of a human membrane protein -- LTC4 synthase -- which has a major influence on the development of asthma. LTC4 synthase is extremely difficult to analyze, and previously only low resolution information has been available on two membrane protein structures from human. [click link for full article]
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07/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Drug Resistant TB Traveler Has Surgery

Andrew Speaker, the American lawyer from Atlanta who traveled to, from and within Europe on commercial airlines while infected with drug-resistant TB earlier this year, had surgery yesterday to remove infected lung tissue.According to several media reports the surgery took about 2 hours and surgeons successfully removed the diseased tissue which is now being tested by pathologists and microbiologists. [click link for full article]
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07/18/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Asthma Education In ER Could Help Avoid Repeat Hospital Stays

A new review of studies suggests that people with asthma who receive disease education during, or soon after, a serious emergency-room visit are less likely to be re-admitted to the hospital than patients who receive no instruction. "We've known for a long time that education works in chronic diseases and education in the emergency department makes good sense," said review co-author Brian Rowe, an emergency physician at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, AB. [click link for full article]
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07/18/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes May Be Increased By Selenium Supplements

Selenium, an antioxidant included in multivitamin tablets thought to have a possible protective effect against the development of type 2 diabetes, may actually increase the risk of developing the disease, an analysis by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown. [click link for full article]
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07/17/2007 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Reclassification Of Pseudoephedrine And Ephedrine: Pharmacy Bodies Agree New Measures, UK

National pharmacy bodies have signed up to a shared package of non-statutory preventative measures, which will minimise the risk of pharmacy medicines being used for methylamphetamine manufacture, while ensuring that these products are still available to patients who need them. [click link for full article]
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07/17/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Congressman Baird Works To Raise Awareness Of Pulmonary Fibrosis, USA

Following the death of his colleague, Congressman Charlie Norwood of Georgia, from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis earlier this year, Congressman Brian Baird (WA-03) has joined Congressman Nathan Deal (R-GA) in introducing a resolution, H.Con.Res.182, to bring much needed attention to this devastating disease. "Pulmonary fibrosis is an often overlooked degenerative and debilitating disease," said Congressman Baird. [click link for full article]
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07/17/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

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