Asthma UK wants to see more real world validation for connected inhalers

Asthma UK’s report on digital health and its ability to improve the treatment of asthma patients treads familiar ground with its call for more contextualized information and testing in real world settings to validate connected devices. It echoes similar calls by clinicians, such as Dr. Michael Blum at University of California San Francisco, for digital health companies targeting asthma and other chronic condition patient populations from diabetes to congestive heart failure.....

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Treg Cells As Potential Asthma Therapy?

Researchers are investigating the possibility the upregulation of regulatory T (Treg) cells as a new therapy to persistently alleviate asthma. A study recently published in the journal Nature, conducted by Kefei Wu of the Department of Hematology in Huadong Hospital at the Shanghai Medical College at Fudan University in China, and colleagues, describes how they combined IL-2 and glucocorticoid to expand antigen-nonspecific Treg cells and reduce airway inflammation.....

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Asthma, please go away

THE Brunei Times’ article “Asthma tops list of work-related illnesses” that was published on Sunday attracts my reading attention.
The article mentioned that asthma, hearing loss and skin diseases are among the top leading occupational illnesses seen in Brunei, and that the majority of workers in the sultanate after undergoing occupational health screenings were also diagnosed with noise-induced deafness.....

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