Risks: A Warning on Asthma and Acetaminophen
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Young teenagers who use acetaminophen even once a month develop asthma symptoms more than twice as often as those who never take it, a large international study has found. And frequent users also had more eczema and eye and sinus irritation. Other studies have linked acetaminophen (often sold as Tylenol and in other over-the-counter remedies for pain, colds, fever and allergies) with an increased risk of asthma. But the new study’s authors cautioned that the findings did not mean children should stop using it. “Acetaminophen remains the preferred drug to relieve pain and fever in children,” said the study’s lead...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
'One size fits all' allergy jab for hay fever, asthma and eczema on the way
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A jab that could provide a "one size fits all" approach to tackling hay fever, asthma and eczema could be available within a few years, a conference heard.Swiss researchers claimed allergies that blight the lives of 10 million British sufferers could be largely eradicated with a single vaccine. An allergy conference in London heard the “one size fits all” injection that wards off asthma, eczema, hay fever and even peanut allergies could be on the shelves within four to five years. Experts say if the jab, known only as CYT003-Qbg10 which has been tested on humans, is properly developed it...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
Woman With Parrot Perched on Face Arrested After Throwing Inhaler
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A 49-year-old woman was arrested as police claim she nearly struck an officer with a thrown inhaler. Janice McCoy-Nuttle, of the 900 block of Beech Street, was laying in a bed surrounded by as many as seven Chihuahaus and 10 cages filled with birds. Police report a white parrot was standing on her forehead at the time, biting her face, while another smaller bird was perched on her chest. She was reportedly intoxicated to the point where she could not stand up and speak to officers and was unable to remove the bird from her face. Police were dispatched to...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
Study links dogs, not cats, to kids' asthma risk
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For children at higher-than-average risk of asthma, having a dog around the house may increase the chances of developing the lung disease, a new study suggests. The study, which followed 380 children at increased risk of asthma due to family history, found that those exposed to relatively high levels of dog allergen at the age of 7 were more likely to have asthma. In contrast, there was no relationship between cat-allergen exposure and a child's risk of asthma, according to findings published in the journal Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. > "Dogs tend to have a...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
FDA to Change Labeling for Long-Acting Beta-Agonists (for asthma)
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The Food and Drug Administration is requiring major changes to the prescribing information of inhaled long-acting beta-agonists as part of a risk management plan to address the ongoing safety issues associated with the products' use in children and adults with asthma, the agency announced at a press briefing. Safety concerns regarding long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) therapy date back to a major study reported more than 7 years ago and include a 2008 FDA meta-analysis, which indicated that treatment with LABAs—either alone or when combined with an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)—is associated with an increased risk of severe asthma symptoms and hospitalizations as...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
FDA urges safety curbs to decrease use of 4 popular asthma drugs, citing lifethreatening risk
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The government is taking steps to curb use of some long-acting asthma drugs used by millions, issuing safety restrictions Thursday to lower a life-threatening risk that asthma could worsen suddenly. The Food and Drug Administration's warnings cover the drugs Advair, Symbicort, Foradil and Serevent. The FDA said they should be used only by asthmatics who can't control their lung disease with other medications _ and even then only for the shortest time possible.
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
Denver boy, 9, died after state-benefits error denied him asthma medication
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A Montbello mother says her 9-year-old son's death from severe asthma could have been prevented had Denver Human Services resolved problems with his Medicaid pharmacy benefits. Zuton Lucero said she called Human Services every three days for months last year when she was suddenly unable to get prescription drugs for her son, Zumante. The boy's health deteriorated without the medication, his doctor said, and he died at Children's Hospital in July after losing consciousness at his house after an attack. "I don't want anyone else to be sitting where I'm sitting," Lucero said. Advocacy lawyers who met Wednesday with the...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
Gene variant may help against emphysema, asthma
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Uncommon version seems to lessen risk of lung disease in smokers People who carry a variant form of a gene that encodes a protein called MMP-12 are in luck. This uncommon form of the gene appears to provide some protection against emphysema and asthma, researchers report online December 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the study, an international team of researchers analyzed data on lung function and genetics from seven studies that included more than 5,000 people and found that 7 to 13 percent of people harbored the beneficial variant of MMP-12. In four of the studies,...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:04:36 AM
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