Many youths appear resistant to treatment from the onset of a severe asthmatic condition. Why? Simply put, many have been wrongly diagnosed or caretakers have not followed asthma treatment guidelines properly. There is no one cure-all for this condition that is a chronic, or long-term lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways...

Oregon and Vermont reported the nation's lowest rates of avoidable hospitalizations for asthma in children ages 2 to 17 in 2006, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Oregon reported the lowest rate of potentially avoidable hospitalizations, at 44 per 100,000 children. Vermont followed closely, with 46 admissions of children with asthma...

Patients with asthma who are exposed to violence in their community are at an increased risk for an asthma-related hospitalization and emergency room visits for asthma or any cause, according to new research from the University Of Pennsylvania School of Medicine...

The American Lung Association is offering a free-of-charge, online caregiving coordination service called "My Fighting for Air Community" to support individuals affected by acute and chronic lung diseases...

A study in the US has found a protein that could be a driver of severe asthma. Dr Elaine Vickers, Research Relations Manager at Asthma UK comments: 'Although this research is in its early stages and focuses solely on mouse models, this discovery provides vital new information on the immune system's role in severe asthma, that could one day lead to the creation of new treatments...

Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2010 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. 11-16, in Phoenix...

Stromedix, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on innovative therapies for fibrosis and fibrotic organ failure, announced that its lead clinical candidate STX-100 has been granted orphan drug status by the U.S...

Carmen Delgado was driving her asthma-suffering daughter Briana to hospital and crashed her car into another vehicle; police officer Alfonso Mendez told the mother he did not know CPR and could not help - leaving the girl to die. The New York Police Department, whose officers are ALL trained in CPR, has suspended Mendez without pay. The girl's funeral is scheduled for today...

For the nearly 2 million U.S. workers exposed to silica dust each year, a new discovery may help prevent or treat the development of chronic lung diseases related to this exposure...

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced the discovery of a Novel Chemical Entity(NCE) 'GRC 17536'. The new NCE program is targeting TRPA1 receptor antagonists for pain and respiratory disorders...

El Camino Hospital has been selected as one of the first hospitals in Northern California to offer bronchial thermoplasty , a new medical treatment for the most severe cases of asthma...

Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology...

Vitamin D may be an effective therapy to treat and even prevent allergy to a common mold that can cause severe complications for patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma, according to researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Results of the study, led by Jay Kolls, M.D., Ph.D...

The mold that spread like a rash across post-Katrina New Orleans did more than destroy homes - it made children with asthma sick. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, experts point to increased sensitivities to environmental asthma triggers as a risk for more severe asthma symptoms and attacks in hundreds of New Orleans children. Today the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc...

Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company"), a growing developer, manufacturer and seller of medicine and drugs in the People's Republic of China (the "PRC"), announced that it has entered R-Bambuterol(R) Clinical Trial I on-schedule and is on-track to complete in six months...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that updated estimates of flu deaths in the US in recent decades show that rather than widely cited annual figure of 36,000, which is too high anyway, the estimated numbers have fluctuated from as low as 3,500 to as high as nearly 49,000, depending on which flu viruses have been prominent...

The number of children admitted to English hospitals with bacterial pneumonia decreased by a fifth in the two years following the introduction of a vaccine to combat the disease, according to a new study published in the journal Thorax. Bacterial pneumonia is a serious illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that mostly affects babies, young children and elderly people...

The WHO "has granted prequalification status to Pfizer Inc.'s children's pneumococcal vaccine, Prevenar 13, paving the way for United Nations agencies and governments to start ordering the product," the Associated Press reports (8/23)...

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that some surveyed physicians indicate that they will decrease their overall prescribing of long-acting beta2 agonists (LABA)/inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) combination therapies over the next 12 months for the treatment of asthma in response to the U.S...

The SUN 1087 trial of Stutent (sunitinib malate) combined with erlotinib versus just elrotinib did not improve overall survival in patients with previously treated NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer), Pfizer Inc. informs. However, the combination therapy did demonstrate a significant improvement in progression free survival....