New Trial to Improve Asthma Control in African-Americans

A new clinical study will enroll about 500 African-Americans who have asthma to examine how they react to therapies and to explore the role of genetics in determining asthma treatment response. African-Americans have been found to suffer higher rates of serious asthma attacks, hospitalizations, and asthma-related deaths than whites.....

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Asthma Control and Your Rescue Inhaler

Studies of asthma have revealed that as may as 74% of asthmatics have nighttime awakenings at least awoke at least once per week, while as many as 64% may have nocturnal symptoms 3 or more times per week. Importantly, as many as 40% asthmatics experience symptoms nightly.....

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Clean Air & Asthma

Exposure to secondhand smoke is a known cause of lung cancer, heart disease, babies born prematurely and/or with low birth-weights, chronic lung ailments such as asthma and COPD, as well as other health problems. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 50,000 Americans die each year from lung cancer and heart disease attributable to secondhand smoke exposure.....

Read more here: hpcpa.org