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UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have observed that informed adults can help families stave off complications linked to asthma. The findings, available online and in the recent issue of Pediatrics, suggest that interventions by parent mentors caregivers of asthmatic children who have received specialized topical training can effectively reduce wheezing, asthma attacks, emergency room visits [...]
CONCLUSIONS: Asthma education led to improved adherence and decreased morbidity compared with UC. Home-based educational interventions may lead to modest short-term improvements in asthma outcomes among inner-city children. Adherence feedback did not improve outcomes over education alone. (Source: PEDIATRICS)
CONCLUSIONS: For asthmatic minority children, PMs can reduce wheezing, asthma exacerbations, ED visits, and missed parental work days while improving parental self-efficacy. These outcomes are achieved at a reasonable cost and with net cost savings for high participants. PMs may be a promising, cost-effective means for reducing childhood asthma disparities. (Source: PEDIATRICS)
Eight out of 10 schools surveyed in England have created or amended their medical policies since receiving the ‘Medical Conditions at School: Policy Pack’ created jointly by Diabetes UK, Asthma UK, the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Epilepsy Action. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Eight out of 10 schools surveyed in England have created or amended their medical policies since receiving the ‘Medical Conditions at School: Policy Pack’ created jointly by Diabetes UK, Asthma UK, the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Epilepsy Action. The survey of 300 schools also showed that more than three quarters of respondents who have used [...]
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that informed adults can help families stave off complications associated with asthma. The findings, available online and in the December issue of Pediatrics, suggest that interventions by parent mentors — caregivers of asthmatic children who have received specialized topical training — can effectively reduce [...]
We report two cases of candidal onychomycosis with severe nail deformities. Case 1: The patient was an 81-year-old man who complained of onycholysis and nail deformity of the right forefinger nail which had occurred over a period of a year. He had no obvious previous illness. Case 2: The patient was an 81-year-old woman who [...]
Women with asthma who take high doses of inhaled corticosteroids during early pregnancy may be putting their offspring at increased risk for congenital malformations, suggest study results. (Source: MedWire News - Ob/Gyn)
Results from a US study suggest that prenatal exposure to the analgesic acetaminophen (paracetamol) does not increase the risk for asthma in children. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
