MAP Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results From Comparative Pharmacokinetic Trial For Its Pediatric Asthma Product Candidate
MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that in a pharmacokinetic clinical trial Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) demonstrated lower systemic drug exposure when compared to the currently marketed conventional nebulized budesonide. UDB is MAP Pharmaceuticals’ proprietary nebulized formulation of budesonide, currently in Phase 3 clinical development, for the potential treatment of pediatric asthma. UDB is designed […]
Combination Asthma Inhalers Lower Risk
For most people with asthma, inhaled steroids are the treatment of choice, and highly effective in preventing and controlling asthma symptoms. But some people are not able to achieve adequate asthma control even with consistent use of daily (or twice daily) inhaled steroids. This is most common in cases of severe persistent asthma.In these cases, […]
Study Analyzed Long-term Symbicort® Use In Children With Persistent Asthma
A new study analyzed long-term use of the maintenance combination asthma therapy, SYMBICORT® (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate), in treating persistent asthma in children 6 to 11 years old. The study examined the safety of SYMBICORT in children for 26 weeks and also included efficacy measures. For children previously treated with inhaled corticosteroid, either alone or in […]
ER asthma visits down as patients learn to manage disease
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Smog rules could push development rural
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The federal government’s new smog standards could push industrial development in Indiana away from its urban areas and into rural counties — or out of the state altogether, an industry official said Thursday.
Environmental activists, however, said the stricter ozone standard announced Wednesday doesn’t go nearly far enough to protect the public from dense, eye-stinging […]
Dal asthma test bests spirometry
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A new device cobbled together out of a stereo speaker, some transducers and a breathing tube by scientists at Dalhousie University in Halifax could revolutionize the way we diagnose asthma.
Called a forced oscillation spirometer, the machine measures how resistant or “twitchy” an asthma patient’s airways are, explains Dr Paul Hern¡andez, a […]
Get Information About Asthma Types
Asthma is an illness where irritants cause inflammation of the bronchial tubes, as they become very sensitive, and thus making it difficult to breath. Contraction of the muscles around the wind pipe can be a result of this inflammation. The inflammation can also cause excessive mucus in the air passage as well as swelling of […]
How To Prevent From Asthma Attacks?
“A severe respiratory infection in infancy greatly increases the risk of developing asthma,” says the study’s lead author Mitchell Grayson, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Immunology. “Less than one in 30 people who don’t suffer a severe respiratory infection as a baby develop asthma, but of those who do […]
Asthma explained by common allergy to milk and dairy products
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The link between asthma and cows’ milk is familiar to many young asthma sufferers and their parents. I first became aware of the connection through my cousin’s experiences with his four-year-old son. Since infancy, my cousin’s son has experienced severe asthma attacks and has been hospitalized twice for asthma-related pneumonia. When his asthma […]
Serevent really is the ‘true asthma miracle drug’
Today I wish to channel my energy better than I did in my previous post. Today I wish to talk to you from an asthmatic/RT perspective. The topic for today is Serevent and Advair. What I write about today should not only benifit asthma patients and parents, but provide useful information for RTs and Drs […]
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