Updated: 2012-09-26 23:21:07
During the first year of life, inner-city babies have different patterns of respiratory infections than infants living in suburban environments, which may be a reason they're more likely to develop asthma, analysis of prospective data showed.
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When it comes to adjusting the dose of inhaled corticosteroids for better asthma control, periodic physician assessment was as good a gauge as using a biomarker or day-to-day symptom occurrence, researchers found.
Updated: 2012-09-05 18:01:29
A drug widely used in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is also effective in patients with asthma that is poorly controlled despite standard combination therapy, researchers reported.
Updated: 2012-09-04 22:24:44
Asthmatic children who used an inhaled corticosteroid for up to 6 years in a randomized trial grew up to be about one-half inch shorter on average than those in the study's placebo group.
