asthma
04/04/2018 / By Vicki Batts
Asthma medications so ineffective that serious attacks require QUADRUPLE dose, according to study
Asthma is a debilitating condition; it affects some 25 million people in the United States alone and estimates suggest that at least 7 million of those people are children. For many asthma sufferers, it is a struggle to keep their condition under control — and the pharmaceutical and medical industries fail to provide them with […]
03/31/2018 / By Zoey Sky
Dangerous medicine: Common practice of increasing steroid dose for children with asthma not only doesn’t prevent flare-ups, it may retard their growth
Temporarily increasing the dose of inhaled steroids as asthma symptoms worsen won’t effectively prevent serious flare-ups, according to a study. This can even be linked to growth retardation, which doesn’t bode well for a common medical practice concerning younger patients with mild-to-moderate asthma. While common, asthma flare-ups in children are often expensive to treat. To […]
09/26/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Using steroid inhalers for respiratory disease may kill you, study finds
The use of steroid inhalers increases the risk of hard-to-treat bacterial infection among older people, a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal suggested. While steroid inhalers are used to help manage the symptoms of asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers from the European Respiratory Society found that they also make users […]
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