Archive for 2007/09


‘Traffic Pollution Leaves Us Choking’, Say More Than Three In Five With Asthma, UK

As Cardiff gears up for the annual 'In town, without your car!' event, opinion research released by Asthma UK Cymru shows that traffic pollution is one of the most commonly reported asthma triggers for people with asthma across Wales, with more than three out of five (65%) claiming it leaves them gasping for breath. [click link for full article]
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09/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Shorter Treatment Time For Tuberculosis Using New Antibiotic Drug Combo

A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs used to treat the highly contagious form of lung disease could dramatically shorten the time needed to cure the illness from six months to four. [click link for full article]
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09/21/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Extensive new data further confirms efficacy of budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy in reducing exacerbations

New data presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) congress demonstrate the efficacy of budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy (Symbicort SMART*) in reducing exacerbations and improving daily asthma control in patients with uncontrolled asthma. [click link for full article]
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09/20/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Aclidinium Bromide Demonstrates Rapid And Long-Acting Bronchodilatory Effect In COPD

Almirall's aclidinium bromide achieves a significant, rapid and long-acting bronchodilatory effect in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to results of a key phase IIa trial presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress in Stockholm. Preclinical and phase I data disclosed at ERS 2007 also support the selective airway activity and safety profile of this novel muscarinic receptor antagonist. [click link for full article]
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09/20/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Diet Support Helps Chronic Kidney Patients

Regular counselling on diet and lifestyle offers significant benefits to people with chronic kidney disease, according to new Queensland University Technology research. Dietitian Katrina Campbell, who graduated with her PhD from QUT yesterday, monitored the diets of 62 pre-dialysis patients at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RB&WH) and supported them with regular contact as part of her thesis. [click link for full article]
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09/20/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

First Study To Examine Rural GP-Complementary Medicine Relationship, Australia

Complementary treatment use is high in regional Australia, but patients often don't tell their doctors, according to a University of Queensland researcher, who will conduct the world's first study in this area. The study, by social scientist Dr Jon Adams, aims to help improve rural health outcomes by investigating the practices and perspectives of regional general practitioners (GPs) regarding complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). [click link for full article]
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09/20/2007 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Global Breakthrough In Animal Experiment: Stem Cells To Repair The Lungs, Highly Promising Results From British Team

Researchers from London's Imperial College have successfully implanted lung cells grown from embryonic stem cells into the lungs of mice. This worldwide breakthrough, presented to the annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Stockholm, opens up exciting new horizons for the treatment of lung disease. Tissue engineering and stem cell therapy are giving rise to great hopes for the treatment of many conditions. [click link for full article]
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09/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Gates Foundation Commits $280 Million For Research To Fight Global TB Epidemic

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today grants totaling $280 million to help fight tuberculosis, an epidemic that infects one-third of people on earth and kills nearly 2 million yearly - mostly in the poorest countries. The 11 new grants will speed research and development on promising vaccines, diagnostic tests, and treatments to help reduce the global TB burden. [click link for full article]
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09/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Study Results For Aclidinium Bromide, A Novel Anticholinergic, Presented At European Respiratory Society Annual Congress

Forest Laboratories (NYSE: FRX) announced that single doses of inhaled aclidinium produced a significant bronchodilatory response in 17 patients with COPD according to results of a phase IIa trial presented today at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress in Stockholm. [click link for full article]
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09/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

New Data Show Doripenem As Effective As Commonly Used Therapies In Treating Hospital-Acquired Pneumonias

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C., announced that the investigational antibiotic doripenem was found to clinically cure 81% of patients with nosocomial pneumonia (NP), and 68% of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in studies comparing doripenem to commonly used therapies. [click link for full article]
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09/19/2007 | Respiratory & Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

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