Archive for 2009/11


Christmas Risky For People With Asthma

It's time to drag out the Chrissie decorations, put up the tree and get into the spirit of the festive season. But, the National Asthma Council Australia is warning people with asthma to beware of the hidden asthma triggers lurking amongst all that Christmas merriment.
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11/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Sports And Remedial Therapy To Be Regulated For First Time, UK

From January 2010, for the first time, sports and remedial therapists in the UK will be regulated. The announcement was delivered by the UK wide regulator, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which opened its register earlier this year in the interests of protecting the public and setting standards within the industry.
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11/29/2009 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

Sports And Remedial Therapy To Be Regulated For First Time, UK

From January 2010, for the first time, sports and remedial therapists in the UK will be regulated. The announcement was delivered by the UK wide regulator, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which opened its register earlier this year in the interests of protecting the public and setting standards within the industry...
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11/29/2009 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine | Trackback | Comments Off

FDA Approves Agriflu Seasonal Influenza Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Agriflu for people ages 18 years and older to prevent disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B. Agriflu, manufactured by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Siena, Italy, was approved using the FDA's accelerated approval pathway, which helps safe and effective medical products for serious or life-threatening diseases become available sooner.
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11/28/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Boehringer Ingelheim And GlaxoSmithKline Back EFA`s Call For Urgent Improvements In Care For People With Lung Disease This World COPD Day

Boehringer Ingelheim and GSK, companies with a strong heritage in COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and a commitment to improved patient care, have announced their support of The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients` Associations` (EFA) call for urgent improvement in the care of people with COPD.
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11/28/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Respiratory / Asthma | Trackback | Comments Off

Stem Cells Heal Lungs Of Newborn Animals - Proven By Physician-Scientist

Dr. Bernard Thébaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, he cares for tiny babies, many of whom struggle for breath after being born weeks before they are due. Across town, in his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Dr. Thébaud dons a lab coat and peers into a microscope to examine the precise effect of stem cells on the lungs.
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11/28/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Pediatrics / Children's Health | Trackback | Comments Off

Brain’s Fear Center Is Equipped With A Built-In Suffocation Sensor

The portion of our brains that is responsible for registering fear and even panic has a built-in chemical sensor that is triggered by a primordial terror - suffocation. A report in the November 25th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows in studies of mice that the rise in acid levels in the brain upon breathing carbon dioxide triggers acid-sensing channels that evoke fear behavior.
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11/27/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Anxiety / Stress | Trackback | Comments Off

Addressing The Public Health Impacts Of Climate Change

Strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health, according to studies published in the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics - household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and agricultural food production.
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11/27/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Heart Disease | Trackback | Comments Off

H1N1 Health Alert: Children With Asthma At Greater Risk From H1N1 Influenza

Children with asthma are at greater risk to develop serious symptoms from H1N1 (swine) flu than from seasonal flu, according to a new study. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a new Canadian study found that children hospitalized with H1N1 were more likely to have asthma (22%) compared to children hospitalized with seasonal flu (6%). However, severity of asthma did not seem to affect risk for H1N1.
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11/27/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Swine Flu | Trackback | Comments Off

Under-Five Child Mortality Up 20% In Zimbabwe, New Data Shows

UNICEF and the government of Zimbabwe announced Tuesday that, according to new social development data, the mortality rate for children under age five has risen by 20 percent since 1990, Reuters reports. The data suggest that the mortality rate is increasing at a slower rate than in March 2005, when it rose by 50 percent, compared to 1990 (Dzirutwe, 11/24).
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11/26/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Pediatrics / Children's Health | Trackback | Comments Off

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