Dr. Li is chair of the Division of Allergic Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine and a board-certified asthma and allergy specialist. (source: Topix.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
According to a press release for an upcoming article in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a number of community factors may affect how common asthma is in your… (source: About) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
An asthma sufferer who was allegedly refused proper treatment at the Delft Day Hospital, and is now on life support in Somerset Hospital’s intensive care unit, is the subject of the latest investigation by the provincial Health Department into claims of substandard care at state health facilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
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Reproducing surface waves on a tiny scale can blast a drug-filled solution into a fine mist for more effective delivery to the lungs (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Zita Gaffley has accused the medical staff of putting her asthmatic son on life support after they allegedly refused to give him proper treatment. (Source: IOL: Health)
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic set out to determine whether the flu vaccine was effective in reducing the number of hospitalizations for all children, and especially the ones with asthma. The study involved 263 children who were evaluated from six months to 18 years of age, each of whom [...]
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. It is characterized primarily by inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs or by alveoli that are filled with fluid (alveoli are microscopic sacs in the lungs that absorb oxygen). At times a very serious condition, pneumonia can make [...]
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. It is characterized primarily by inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs or by alveoli that are filled with fluid (alveoli are microscopic sacs in the lungs that absorb oxygen). At times a very serious condition, pneumonia can make [...]
Up to a third of patients with severe asthma that persists despite conventional treatment would benefit from also taking an anti-cholinergic drug, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Motivation: Many complex disease syndromes such as asthma consist of a large number of highly related, rather than independent, clinical phenotypes, raising a new technical challenge in identifying genetic variations associated simultaneously with correlated traits. Although a causal genetic variation may influence a group of highly correlated traits jointly, most of the previous association analyses [...]
