$2.66 million NIH award to Wayne State to improve asthma treatment outcomes in African Am

DETROIT – Older adolescents and young adults are at the highest risk for poor asthma management and health outcomes, but few studies have been published on this issue.
A team of Wayne State University researchers led by Karen MacDonell, Ph.D., assistant professor of family medicine and public health sciences at Wayne State's School of Medicine, recently received a $2.66 million award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to address research limitations on interventions and ultimately improve asthma management in racial minority populations, particularly minority adolescents and young adults.....

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Chilliwack man left in a coma after severe asthma attack

Lee-Ann Kaigle spent the last week as no mother should have to: watching over her adult son in a coma with tubes sticking out of him.
On Oct. 15, Mike Kaigle suffered a massive asthma attack, one so severe that his heart stopped three times and hospital staff had to bring him back to life.
His brain was deprived of oxygen for 15 minutes, according to Lee-Ann, and that left him on life support in a coma with uncertain brain damage.....

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Existing Data Has Researchers Optimistic about Reslizumab for Severe Asthma

Despite caveats, exceptions, and a need for more information, researchers are enthusiastic about reslizumab, a treatment for patients with uncontrolled asthma who have exhausted other possibilities. A review conducted by Diego Jose Maselli, MD, of the Department of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and colleagues examined the data on reslizumab. The review was published in the Journal of Asthma and Allergy recently.....

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