A Boy With Cough, Wheeze, and Chest Pain: Is it Asthma?

A 5-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of cough that had been unresponsive to albuterol. He had had a 1-day history of left-sided chest pain, abdominal pain, headache, and fever. His past medical and surgical history was otherwise unremarkable. There was a family history of asthma. His father recently had returned home from deployment in Afghanistan, but the patient had no history of travel. His immunizations were up to date.....

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GSK Expands Its Asthma and COPD Portfolio in the US

GlaxoSmithKline has announced the simultaneous availability of two of its recently approved products for the treatment of asthma and COPD to retail pharmacies in the US. Over the past 15 months, GSK has launched four inhaled respiratory therapies in the US, all delivered in its Ellipta inhaler.....

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Young asthma patients share group health session

How do you teach the youngest asthma patients, and their families, to manage their condition? At the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center, there are 450 pediatric patients who are living with asthma — that’s children from 5 to 17 — and in most cases, their asthma is uncontrolled, according to the health center.....

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