The physical forces of airway constriction appear to induce airway remodeling in asthma patients independent of inflammation, researchers found.Pediatric asthma patients are nearly twice as likely to be prescribed an unnecessary antibiotic, compared with other pediatric patients, during an office or emergency department visit, recent studies revealed.
Years ago, many of us may remember, there were reports that vines – tree strangling lianas and their kin – are proliferating in rain forests. Some places, they were taking over. Ominous, spooky. After mostly reporting from the mechanical, made world The Times’s Henry Fountain this time treks into a forest in Panama for a [...]
You might have seen in the press recently a story about a ?new? pill for treating asthma, but is it really ?new?? And what does it mean for people with asthma?
One, namely I, must concede to wondering in this year when tornadoes are erasing whole towns whether something big and ominous is going on, or merely big and awful but just one of those things that happens in an unpredictable world. After Joplin, Mo, was run through a deadly mill yesterday, with deaths counted at [...]DENVER -- An enzyme involved in atherosclerosis may play a protective role in asthma, at least in women, a researcher said here.In the "real world" of asthma treatment, leukotriene-receptor agonists may be just as effective as the gold standard of inhaled glucocorticoids as both a first-line and add-on therapy, researchers said.The proportion of Americans with asthma rose by almost a full percentage point, to 8.2%, from 2001 to 2009, according to the CDC, despite improved outdoor air quality and reduced indoor exposures to tobacco smoke.