Saturday, November 16, 2013

Asthma Linked To Infertility In Women: How Inflammation From The Condition Impacts More Than Just Your Lungs

People suffering from asthma may also experience health issues in major organs not connected to the respiratory system due to inflammation that the condition causes. A study conducted at Bispebjerg University Hospital in Denmark determined that women with asthma are, on average, less fertile than women without asthma.....

Keep reading at medicaldaily.com

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Asthma: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Asthma is a chronic condition in which the airways that carry air to the lungs are inflamed and narrowed.
Inflamed airways are very sensitive, and they tend to react to things in the environment called triggers, such as inhaled substances. When the airways react, they swell and narrow even more, and also produce extra mucus, all of which make it harder for air to flow to the lungs.....

Keep reading at livescience.com

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Young adults with asthma ‘need cold weather care’

medwireNews: Researchers say that young adults with asthma should receive extra care and guidance during the winter months, to stop the effects of cold weather exposure from limiting their activities.....

Keep reading at medwirenews.com

Friday, November 15, 2013

Women With Asthma Take Just a Little Longer To Get Pregnant

Women who have asthma take just a little longer to get pregnant, according to a new study published Thursday. Their overall fertility rates, however, are most likely unaffected, The Huffington Post reported.....

Keep reading at universityherald.com

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Asthma Makes Women Infertile? Study Links Asthma to Delayed Pregnancy

Asthma may lead to infertility in women. Explaining this point, a new study from Denmark says that asthma patients are at higher risk of struggling to conceive than women without the condition.....

Keep reading at ibtimes.co.in

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Pregnancy delay for women with asthma

ASTHMA increases the time it takes for a woman to get pregnant, a study has shown.
The risk of delay is greater in women over the age of 30, and whose condition is untreated.
Scientists believe the inflammation characteristic of asthma is likely to have an effect on fertility. They studied data on 15,000 female twins from Denmark with an average age of 27 .....

Keep reading at heraldscotland.com

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Asthma May Lengthen Time to Get Pregnant

Getting pregnant may take longer for women with asthma, a new study from Denmark suggests.
Researchers analyzed information from more than 15,000 women in Denmark, including 950 who had asthma.....

Keep reading at livescience.com

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‘Try to conceive in your 20s if you have asthma’

Women with asthma take longer to get pregnant, a study suggests. In research involving 15,000 Danish twins, women with the condition were 25 per cent more likely to take at least a year to conceive.....

Keep reading at thetimes.co.uk
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Pregnant women who smoke as well as having asthma are greatly increasing the risk of complications

New research from the University of Adelaide has shown for the first time that pregnant women who smoke as well as having asthma are greatly increasing the risk of complications for themselves and their unborn children.....

Keep reading at medicalnewstoday.com

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Researchers use asthma drug to treat elbow injuries

CALGARY- Grace Selinger fractured her elbow last September.
“When I fell, it was sort of like slow motion. I knew I was falling, so I had to pick what I was going to fall on and I picked my arm,” Selinger remembers.
The 57-year-old Calgary woman spent six weeks with her elbow immobilized at a 90 degree angle, but after the cast came off her range of motion was limited.....

Keep reading at globalnews.ca

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Moderately preterm births add to asthma burden

medwireNews: Research from Finland shows that children born late preterm or early term are at significantly increased risk for asthma compared with those born at term, and these births account for the majority of excess asthma burden due to prematurity.....

Keep reading at medwirenews.com

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8 Tips For Parents Of Teens With Asthma

Assess Where Your Teen Is Today
As your child becomes a teen with asthma, you will need to rethink your parenting strategy. Up to this point how have you managed your teen’s asthma?....

Keep reading at asthma.about.com

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Cormier Brings Asthma Research to UTHSC

More than $2.5 million in research grant money has been transferred to The University of Tennessee Health Science Center following associate professor Dr. Stephania Cormier’s move to the college earlier this year.....

Keep reading at memphisdailynews.com




Inhaled Budesonide, Formoterol Reduces Risk of Asthma-Related Hospitalisation: Presented at ACAAI

BALTIMORE, Md -- November11, 2013 -- A retrospective matched cohort study involving nearly 15,000 adolescents and adults has demonstrated that the use of an inhaled combination of budesonide and formoterol lowers the risk of asthma-related hospitalisation compared with budesonide alone, researchers said here on November 9 at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI).....

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Index predicts asthma in high-risk preschool children

medwireNews: Researchers have shown that the modified Asthma Predictive Index (mAPI) has high predictive value for future asthma development, when applied in the first 3 years of life.....

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Rural Teens Have High Asthma Rate

BALTIMORE -- The prevalence of asthma among high school students can be just as high in the countryside as it is in the inner cities, a researcher said here.
In a survey of 2,543 students in four rural schools, more than 18% had diagnosed asthma, according to Poneh Davoodi, MD, of Georgia Regents University in Augusta, and colleagues.....

Keep reading at medpagetoday.com



Shammara Norris promotes asthma awareness throughout Texas

If Shammara Norris could have her way, she’d drive a mobile clinic around Texas and treat every asthma sufferer, adults and children. It’s her heart’s desire “To educate, empower and transform asthmatics to prevail over this serious disease,” according to the mission statement of Positive Breathing Organization, an organization she founded to help those who suffer with this chronic lung disease. One of her biggest concerns is children who are given too many steroids and gaining too much weight, which increases risk of diabetes.....

Keep reading at rollingout.com



Herbal and Natural Remedies or Asthma

We have seen how to naturally beat asthma in my previous article. In this article, let us see some of the simple daily used ingredients which serve as medicine for treating Asthma......

Keep reading at ayurvedicnaturalhomeremedies.com