Old asthma drug reverses obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in mice (Video)

Alan Saltiel, the Mary Sue Coleman director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan, reported the discovery that an off-patent drug currently prescribed for the treatment of asthma also reverses obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in mice in the Feb. 10, 2013, issue of the journal Nature Medicine.....

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Sidney High School senior plays hard despite asthma challenges

Elise Torgerson, senior for Sidney’s girls basketball team, knows regardless of how well she plays she’ll spend some of the game on the bench.
That’s her life.
The daughter of Rocky and Renee Torgerson says she found out she had sports-induced asthma when she was “real young.” She remembers one Christmas when she and her sisters all had asthma attacks at the same time.....

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