Local News: Mineral Wells, TX 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Advertisment

Asthma News Editors

RoboBlogger

I edit this news page on Topix when no humans are available to help.

People just like you make Asthma News on Topix better every day. If you're interested in becoming an editor, apply today!

Edits History | Editor Blog

RSS icon mobile icon

Asthma News

News on Asthma continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

13 hrs ago | Fort Morgan Times

Farmer finds way to beat asthma triggers

Dan Babcock, who works on a farm between Wiggins and Weldona and has asthma that can be triggered by seasonal allergies, has found ways to manage his asthma despite the many allergens he comes into contact with in the course of his work.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Weldona, CO, Wiggins, CO

Fri Nov 06, 2009

WebMD Health News

Oral Contraceptives May Help Treat Asthma

Nov. 6, 2009 -- Treatment with oral contraceptives may benefit premenopausal women with asthma, even if their asthma symptoms are not strongly linked to their monthly menstrual cycles, early research suggests.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Canada, World News,

Newswise

New Survey Reveals Unmet Needs in Asthma Care in the U.S.

Newswise - In the past year, an estimated more than one million patients were hospitalized and nearly three million visited emergency rooms in the United States as a result of asthma, according to a new comprehensive national survey.1, 2 Additionally, approximately one in three asthma patients 12 and older surveyed were hospitalized, visited ...

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, San Diego Metro

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Journal-Advocate

Network seeks to loosen asthma's grip with toolkits

Imagine trying to perform your daily routine while sucking on a straw. That's how Del Northrup, of New Raymer, describes living with asthma.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Raymer, CO, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Lake Elsinore Valley News

USC Study shows 6% of asthma cases in Riverside attributed to heavy traffic corridors

About 6 percent of all childhood asthma cases in Riverside and 9 percent in Long Beach can be attributed to proximity to heavy traffic corridors, according to a USC study released today.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Preventive Medicine

Myrtle Beach Online

Merck, now No. 2 drugmaker, set for future buys

The new Merck & Co. has become the world's second-biggest drugmaker overnight with a huge acquisition, but it still has a fat wallet and plans more wheeling and dealing.

Comment?

Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Schering Plough, Cholesterol, Health, Allergy, Singulair, Montelukast (generic), Medication

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Free Republic

A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma

I don't often write about alternative remedies for serious medical conditions. Most have little more than anecdotal support, and few have been found effective in well-designed clinical trials.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Woodstock, NY

Mon Nov 02, 2009

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Asthma Sufferers At A Higher Risk Of Catching H1N1

Asthma is a chronic conditions that leads to complications from H1N1 flu cases. It's the most common underlying condition associated with the illness.

1 comment

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Pneumonia

Earth Times

Flutiform EU Clinical Trial Successfully Completed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SkyePharma Announces Successful Completion of FlutiformTM EU Clinical Trial Programme LONDON, UK, 2 November, 2009 - SkyePharma PLC today announces that its development and marketing partner Mundipharma International Corporation Limited has successfully completed the final Phase III clinical study for the European development ...

Comment?

Related Topix: SkyePharma, Biotech, Marketing, Medicine, Health, Foradil, Formoterol (generic), Medication, Fluticasone (generic), Flovent

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Brush News-Tribune

Living with asthma

Editor's Note: This is the 1st in a series of articles on asthma. This series is part of an asthma awareness project Network in eastern Colorado being done by the High Plains Research Community Advisory Council.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Fort Morgan, CO, Brush, CO

Fri Oct 30, 2009

MedicineNet

Health Highlights: Oct. 29, 2009

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: A new technology from a small California-based company should be approved as the first non-drug treatment for asthma , a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Wednesday.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology

PhysOrg Weblog

Teriparatide outperforms alendronate in treating steroid-induced osteoporosis

A recent study determined glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis is now treatable with Teriparatide, a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone.

Comment?

Related Topix: Fosamax, Alendronate (generic), Medicine, Medication, Osteoporosis, Health, Arthritis, Inflammation, Crohn's Disease

Leduc Representative

Leduc residents line up for H1N1 shot

Leduc residents lined up - some for hours - at the Leduc Fellowship Church Oct. 26 to get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus.

Comment?

Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Canada, Medicine, Influenza, Crohn's Disease

Thu Oct 29, 2009

HON

Better Drug Emerges for Steroid-Induced Bone Loss

The drug teriparatide is better at increasing bone density and reducing vertebral fractures in patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis than the drug alendronate, a new study finds.

Comment?

Related Topix: Osteoporosis, Medicine, Health, Fosamax, Alendronate (generic), Medication, Inflammation, Arthritis, Crohn's Disease

Holyoke Enterprise

Support for people with asthma helps life

This is the final in a series of articles for a community program to raise awareness about asthma and the Asthma Toolkits program.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, Colorado, Colorado Government

Wed Oct 28, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds

The indigestible part of all plant-based foods pushes its way through most of the digestive tract unchanged, acting as a kind of internal broom.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Colitis, Life, Food, Nutrition

The Age

First non-drug asthma treatment gets OK

Federal health advisers say a novel technology from a small medical technology firm should be approved as the first non-drug treatment for asthma.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health

CNN

Asthma and swine flu: Here's what to do

About 25 million people in the United States have asthma, including 8 million children.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Immunology, Biology, Science

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

Icagen drug fails in trial; shares plummet

Shares of Icagen Inc. plunged Tuesday on news that the Research Triangle Park-based company plans to stop development of senicapoc due to the asthma drug's failure in a clinical trial.

Comment?

Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Icagen, Health, Research Triangle Park, NC

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Florida Times-Union

Clinical trials: Giving back to the community

It's hard for families to volunteer for clinical research trials in asthma. It means added time and attention tracking the smallest changes of a frustrating and life-threatening disease.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, Jacksonville Metro, Opinion

Also on Topix