The impact Cape Town fires could have on asthmatics
A UCT professor says CT's wild fires could trigger an asthma attack to those who were susceptible.

JOHANNESBURG – Environmental pollution, like the wild fires currently crippling Cape Town’s South Peninsula, could trigger asthma attacks to those susceptible.
This according to the Head of Division of Asthma and Allergy at University of Cape Town, Professor Mike Levin.....

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Jubilant Life receives US FDA approval for asthma drug montelukast
The total market size for montelukast tablets - a generic version of Merck's Singulair chewable tablets - is estimated to be $83 million per annum in the US

The US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has granted final approval Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd’s abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for montelukast sodium chewable tablets, 4 mg and 5 mg - a generic version of Singulair chewable tablets of Merck.....

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Pregnant women with asthma need to curb urge to ask for antibiotics

Getting sick when you're pregnant is especially difficult, but women whose children are at risk for developing asthma should avoid antibiotics, according to a new study.
The study, published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), followed 298 mother-child pairs through the child's third year of life. The study found that 22 percent of the 103 children born to mothers who took antibiotics during pregnancy were diagnosed with asthma by age 3. In contrast, only 11 percent of the children born to mothers who didn't take antibiotics prenatally were similarly diagnosed.....

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