Topic: United States
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with asthma and pollen allergies were more likely to wheeze, cough and have shortness of breath and other asthma symptoms -- even when pollen levels were considered "low" -- in a new study that suggests parents ...
(Reuters) - Health officials are banning the only asthma inhaler sold over the counter in the United States starting from next year to prevent the use of products that harm the environment.The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of six kids with asthma receives an antibiotic they don't need, according to new study findings.The researchers found that doctors prescribe roughly 1 million unnecessary antibiotics to U.S. kids with asthma each year, potentially encouraging ...
Asthma cases in the United States have risen 12.3 percent since 2001, and nearly one in 12, or almost 25 million Americans, are stricken with the chronic respiratory disease, the government said Tuesday.The extra 4.3 million cases over the past decade also ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - About 25 million Americans, or 1 in 12 people, have asthma, a figure that is rising despite efforts to control key asthma triggers such as indoor smoking, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
Puerto Rico, puzzled about high asthma rate, finds few solutionsSix-year-old Jaycco Paris has only tossed the ball toward the basket for a few minutes when he plunks himself down on a bench to rest before he starts wheezing.Jaycco is one of tens ...
Rarely occurring, but of importance, are allergic reactions of paradoxical bronchospasm , urticaria , angioedema , hypotension , and collapse , whilst high doses may cause hypokalaemia (low potassium levels), especially in patients with renal failure and those on certain diuretics and ...
In December two teams of researchers in the U.S. announced that they had identified a molecule, interleukin-13 (IL-13), which may be responsible for the airway inflammation characteristic of asthma. In the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a ...
This study will evaluate an investigational oral birth control drug. The research site is in San Antonio, Texas.. This study of an inhaled drug seeks children aged 4 years or younger who have been diagnosed with asthma or have symptoms of asthma.. ...
Asthma is a very serious and potentially fatal disease that affects millions of people world wide. In America alone, approximately 20 million people suffer from this life threatening illness. Nine million U.S. children under the age of 18 have been diagnosed with ...
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