Asthma, More Deadly With Age, Takes Heavy Toll On Older Adults
In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch her breath.
She couldn’t.
With mountain vistas around her, Robins felt as if she was drowning. She gasped for air hungrily again and again.
Robins knew all too well what was happening. Something — some kind of plant? something in the mountain air? — had triggered her asthma, a lifelong condition.....
Read more here: khn.org
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Probiotic Use and Eczema, Asthma Prevention: No Conclusive Evidence
A study published in Pediatrics found no conclusive evidence to support the use of probiotics to prevent eczema and asthma in high-risk infants.1
In the study, researchers from UC San Francisco examined the effect of probiotic use among children receiving it for the first 6 months of life, and compared the results to those who did not receive probiotics. The goal of the study was to determine whether probiotic use lessened the risk of asthma and eczema, which frequently precedes asthma. The infants in the study all were at a high risk of developing asthma due to 1 or both parents having the condition.....
Read more here: pharmacytimes.com
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Could your chest cold be a sign of asthma?
When you think about asthma, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s an image of your child coughing after exposure to pollen, or maybe it’s a kid running around on the soccer field that starts wheezing. We usually do not think of adults as having asthma, and for good reason — adult-onset asthma does not usually present with the same symptoms as it does with childhood asthma.....
Read more here: scrubbing.in
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Friday, August 11, 2017
How Louisville Is Using GPS to Control Asthma
The Kentucky metro has some of the worst air quality in the country. And it’s crowdsourcing a cure to help its large population of sufferers.
After an extreme respiratory infection in 2015 nearly destroyed her lungs, Dawn Sirek’s asthma was out of control.
Merely getting dressed and brushing her teeth strained her lungs; walking up stairs felt like suffocating. Exercise was out of the question. With her pulmonary function levels at just 35 percent, the Louisville nurse and mother of four was hitting her emergency inhaler dozens of times per day.....
Read more here: citylab.com
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City launches program to cut down on number of emergency room visits for asthma
Pillow cases, cleaning supplies and pest control services will be handed out to families suffering from asthma as part of a new city program announced Wednesday.
The initiative is designed to reduce the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations made by people suffering from the breathing condition.
Under the program, a community health worker will visit homes to identify asthma triggers such as an old pillow case or an irritable cleaning product.....
Read more here: nydailynews.com
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Asthma at 60? Yes, it's possible
Dear Dr. Roach • I am a fit and healthy 60-year-old male. Recently I was troubled by a series of escalating symptoms: I occasionally got a bit of hoarseness, then I seemed to lose some capacity in my lungs. When breathing hard, it seemed I could bring air into only the top of my lungs, not take a deep breath. I then began wheezing when exerting myself, and my throat and chest began to feel mild pressure, like someone was gently pushing on them. My energy was low.....
Read more here: stltoday.com
The Kentucky metro has some of the worst air quality in the country. And it’s crowdsourcing a cure to help its large population of sufferers.
After an extreme respiratory infection in 2015 nearly destroyed her lungs, Dawn Sirek’s asthma was out of control.
Merely getting dressed and brushing her teeth strained her lungs; walking up stairs felt like suffocating. Exercise was out of the question. With her pulmonary function levels at just 35 percent, the Louisville nurse and mother of four was hitting her emergency inhaler dozens of times per day.....
Read more here: citylab.com
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City launches program to cut down on number of emergency room visits for asthma
Pillow cases, cleaning supplies and pest control services will be handed out to families suffering from asthma as part of a new city program announced Wednesday.
The initiative is designed to reduce the number of emergency room visits and hospitalizations made by people suffering from the breathing condition.
Under the program, a community health worker will visit homes to identify asthma triggers such as an old pillow case or an irritable cleaning product.....
Read more here: nydailynews.com
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Asthma at 60? Yes, it's possible
Dear Dr. Roach • I am a fit and healthy 60-year-old male. Recently I was troubled by a series of escalating symptoms: I occasionally got a bit of hoarseness, then I seemed to lose some capacity in my lungs. When breathing hard, it seemed I could bring air into only the top of my lungs, not take a deep breath. I then began wheezing when exerting myself, and my throat and chest began to feel mild pressure, like someone was gently pushing on them. My energy was low.....
Read more here: stltoday.com
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Heart and Asthma Monitors? There’s an App for That
BERKELEY, Calif. — He could have been surfing in Cabo. Instead, Tyler Crouch, then a 21-year-old mechanical-engineering student, spent spring break of 2013 building a digitized stethoscope and thinking, “This better be worth it.”
Since then, he and two classmates from the University of California, Berkeley, have formed a company — Eko Devices, which is based here — raised nearly $5 million and sold 6,000 digital stethoscopes, used in 700 hospitals. The wireless stethoscopes can transfer a patient’s heart rate and other vital signs directly to Eko’s secure portal, where it can, among other things, be shared with other doctors for a second opinion.....
Read more here: nytimes.com
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Dupixent Asthma Data Could Seal A Second Blockbuster Market
Impending results in a large phase III uncontrolled asthma study have the potential to confirm Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) and Regeneron's (NASDAQ:REGN) Dupixent as one of the most notable new drugs to reach the market this year.
Like other antibodies being used or tested in asthma, the drug is being targeted at people with severe disease; Dupixent is unique in that its efficacy does not appear to be restricted to a narrow subtype of these patients. But confirmation of this broader utility is needed to cement already lofty sales forecasts and put the drug on track for a second blockbuster indication.....
Read more here: seekingalpha.com
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Roche unloads some rights to drug hopeful after asthma trial disappointment
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche is offloading some rights to what was once one of its top drug prospects, lebrikizumab, for payments which could total more than $1 billion after the medicine produced only lacklustre results in an asthma study last year.
The Basel-based drugmaker had said in February 2016 that the monoclonal antibody targeting the so-called Interleukin 13 protein hit its goal in just one of two identical Phase III studies - dashing its hopes that late-stage studies would provide a clear path forward after promising earlier trials.....
Read more here: reuters.com
BERKELEY, Calif. — He could have been surfing in Cabo. Instead, Tyler Crouch, then a 21-year-old mechanical-engineering student, spent spring break of 2013 building a digitized stethoscope and thinking, “This better be worth it.”
Since then, he and two classmates from the University of California, Berkeley, have formed a company — Eko Devices, which is based here — raised nearly $5 million and sold 6,000 digital stethoscopes, used in 700 hospitals. The wireless stethoscopes can transfer a patient’s heart rate and other vital signs directly to Eko’s secure portal, where it can, among other things, be shared with other doctors for a second opinion.....
Read more here: nytimes.com
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Dupixent Asthma Data Could Seal A Second Blockbuster Market
Impending results in a large phase III uncontrolled asthma study have the potential to confirm Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) and Regeneron's (NASDAQ:REGN) Dupixent as one of the most notable new drugs to reach the market this year.
Like other antibodies being used or tested in asthma, the drug is being targeted at people with severe disease; Dupixent is unique in that its efficacy does not appear to be restricted to a narrow subtype of these patients. But confirmation of this broader utility is needed to cement already lofty sales forecasts and put the drug on track for a second blockbuster indication.....
Read more here: seekingalpha.com
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Roche unloads some rights to drug hopeful after asthma trial disappointment
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche is offloading some rights to what was once one of its top drug prospects, lebrikizumab, for payments which could total more than $1 billion after the medicine produced only lacklustre results in an asthma study last year.
The Basel-based drugmaker had said in February 2016 that the monoclonal antibody targeting the so-called Interleukin 13 protein hit its goal in just one of two identical Phase III studies - dashing its hopes that late-stage studies would provide a clear path forward after promising earlier trials.....
Read more here: reuters.com
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
5 foods that can trigger an asthma attack
Struggling with asthma? You might want to check your food labels.
No one really knows exactly what causes asthma. What we do however know is that asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Symptoms can vary from person to person, but one thing is constant: when airways come into contact with an asthma trigger, the airways become inflamed, narrow and fill with mucus.
According to statistics from the Western Cape Government, there was a significant rise in adult asthma in South Africa over the past 25 years.
If you are suffering from asthma, it is important to know that although your symptoms can be easily controlled, an attack may be deadly.....
Read more here: health24.com
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Racial disparities in childhood asthma linked to residential segregation
Researchers have had trouble explaining why black children are much more likely than other children to suffer from asthma. A new study by Princeton University strongly suggests that much of the answer lies in persistent residential segregation, which traps minority children in unhealthy, polluted neighborhoods.
In the United States, black children are twice as likely as other children to develop asthma. Past research has attributed some of this difference to low birth weight, as black children are also more likely than others to be born at a low weight -- defined as less than 2,500 grams, or about 5.5 pounds -- and low birth weight is a risk factor for developing asthma.....
Read more here: news-medical.net
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Roche unloads some rights to drug hopeful after asthma trial disappointment
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche is offloading some rights to what was once one of its top drug prospects, lebrikizumab, for payments which could total more than $1 billion after the medicine produced only lacklustre results in an asthma study last year.
The Basel-based drugmaker had said in February 2016 that the monoclonal antibody targeting the so-called Interleukin 13 protein hit its goal in just one of two identical Phase III studies - dashing its hopes that late-stage studies would provide a clear path forward after promising earlier trials.....
Read more here: reuters.com
Struggling with asthma? You might want to check your food labels.
No one really knows exactly what causes asthma. What we do however know is that asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Symptoms can vary from person to person, but one thing is constant: when airways come into contact with an asthma trigger, the airways become inflamed, narrow and fill with mucus.
According to statistics from the Western Cape Government, there was a significant rise in adult asthma in South Africa over the past 25 years.
If you are suffering from asthma, it is important to know that although your symptoms can be easily controlled, an attack may be deadly.....
Read more here: health24.com
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Racial disparities in childhood asthma linked to residential segregation
Researchers have had trouble explaining why black children are much more likely than other children to suffer from asthma. A new study by Princeton University strongly suggests that much of the answer lies in persistent residential segregation, which traps minority children in unhealthy, polluted neighborhoods.
In the United States, black children are twice as likely as other children to develop asthma. Past research has attributed some of this difference to low birth weight, as black children are also more likely than others to be born at a low weight -- defined as less than 2,500 grams, or about 5.5 pounds -- and low birth weight is a risk factor for developing asthma.....
Read more here: news-medical.net
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Roche unloads some rights to drug hopeful after asthma trial disappointment
ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche is offloading some rights to what was once one of its top drug prospects, lebrikizumab, for payments which could total more than $1 billion after the medicine produced only lacklustre results in an asthma study last year.
The Basel-based drugmaker had said in February 2016 that the monoclonal antibody targeting the so-called Interleukin 13 protein hit its goal in just one of two identical Phase III studies - dashing its hopes that late-stage studies would provide a clear path forward after promising earlier trials.....
Read more here: reuters.com
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Asthma Drug May Help Kidney Patients Regain Sense of Smell
THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A common problem among chronic kidney disease patients is a loss of the sense of smell, which could lead to an inadequate diet, researchers say.
In turn, malnutrition in these patients can result in poor quality of life, poor overall health and even early death.
But a new study found that using an inhaled asthma drug might improve the sense of smell in kidney failure patients.....
Read more here: cumberlink.com
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Causes of asthma: Your guide to asthma risk factors and triggers
Asthma is a condition that causes your airways to swell and produce extra mucus, making it difficult to breathe, according to Jason Casselman, D.O., with Reid Allergy. Symptoms of asthma include coughing, wheezing and chest tightness. Asthma can affect anyone — children and adults — so it’s important to understand the causes of asthma and its symptoms.....
Read more here: reidhealth.org
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Camp Asthmacadabra Teaches Kids How to Better Handle Asthma
DENNISON TOWNSHIP -- Camp Asthmacadabra is just like any other camp, with archery, swimming and arts and crafts.
What sets the camp apart from any other in Luzerne County? Kids are also learning how to better deal with their asthma. It was inspired with two people in mind.
When the sun hits the lake just right at Camp Asthmacadabra, Michael Tracy said he feels something more than just the warmth of the sunshine.
"I feel them all the time, I carry them all the time in my heart," Tracy said.....
Read more here: wnep.com
THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A common problem among chronic kidney disease patients is a loss of the sense of smell, which could lead to an inadequate diet, researchers say.
In turn, malnutrition in these patients can result in poor quality of life, poor overall health and even early death.
But a new study found that using an inhaled asthma drug might improve the sense of smell in kidney failure patients.....
Read more here: cumberlink.com
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Causes of asthma: Your guide to asthma risk factors and triggers
Asthma is a condition that causes your airways to swell and produce extra mucus, making it difficult to breathe, according to Jason Casselman, D.O., with Reid Allergy. Symptoms of asthma include coughing, wheezing and chest tightness. Asthma can affect anyone — children and adults — so it’s important to understand the causes of asthma and its symptoms.....
Read more here: reidhealth.org
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Camp Asthmacadabra Teaches Kids How to Better Handle Asthma
DENNISON TOWNSHIP -- Camp Asthmacadabra is just like any other camp, with archery, swimming and arts and crafts.
What sets the camp apart from any other in Luzerne County? Kids are also learning how to better deal with their asthma. It was inspired with two people in mind.
When the sun hits the lake just right at Camp Asthmacadabra, Michael Tracy said he feels something more than just the warmth of the sunshine.
"I feel them all the time, I carry them all the time in my heart," Tracy said.....
Read more here: wnep.com
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