An asthma-management study published in today’s edition of the Medical Journal of Australia highlights the valuable role pharmacists can play in primary health care and chronic disease self-management, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA).
An abstract of the study Data-mining of medication records to improve asthma management, conducted by the University of Tasmania’s School [...]

The Strategic Program for Asthma Research has awarded University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston professor Satish Srivastava a three-year, $750,000 grant to pursue an innovative approach to asthma therapy.
Srivastava will use the award to examine the link between the enzyme aldose reductase and asthma-related lung inflammation. Previous research by Srivastava’s group has shown that [...]

ScienceDaily (June 16, 2008) — A nuclear medicine imaging test was used to confirm that children with respiratory problems may be more likely to develop gastroesophageal reflux disease, according to researchers at SNM’s 55th Annual Meeting. The nuclear imaging technique, known as scintigraphy, was also shown to be more effective in detecting the disease in [...]

SYDNEY- A passion fruit extract can cut down severe wheezing and coughing among asthma patients and help reduce blood pressure, a new study published in the journal Nutrition Research , has found.
In a placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, only about a fifth of the people receiving purple passion fruit skin extracts had wheeze as a symptom, compared [...]

TORONTO — First-born children are known to have a higher risk for developing asthma and allergies than their younger siblings, and researchers suggest part of the reason may lie in the womb.
A study of 1,200 children on the U.K.’s Isle of Wight, followed from birth into childhood, found first-borns had higher levels of a certain [...]

Poor indoor air quality can aggravate allergies and asthma, and can be up to five times as harmful as outdoor air pollution, a U.S. health organization said.
The American Lung Association also said that heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems are a frequent source of the indoor air pollution that can aggravate asthma.
Ductz Indoor Air Professionals, [...]

ScienceDaily (May 6, 2008) — Two studies that offer new insights to help adolescents and younger children improve their asthma control will be presented by researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center at this year’s annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) in Honolulu, Hawaii.
One study, to be presented May 4, found that teens [...]