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New Trial Helps Asthma Patients

Some asthma patients may benefit from an anti-fungal drug. A British trial looked at severe asthma patients who needed hefty doses to of steroids to breathe freely. The subjects were sensitive to a...
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Preventative Antibiotics

Patients in intenseive care should get antibiotics before an infection shows up. That's the finding from a major Dutch study in the "New England Journal of Medicine." The precaution should be taken...
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Supplements and Vitamins Doubted to Lower Cancer Risk

There’s more reason to doubt the use of supplements in lowering overall cancer risk. A new study indicates long term use of beta carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E doesn’t reduce and individual’s r...
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Asthma Suffers Must Toss Old Inhalers

Asthma sufferers have just one day left to say goodbye to their old inhalers. The Food and Drug Administration set a Dec. 31st deadline for stores to stop selling albuterol inhalers that use greenh...
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Surgery For Diabetic Teens

Just like adults, surgery on obese teens has helped reverse diabetes. Recent surgeries on 11 obese teens resulted in some needing less insulin; some no longer needing their medication; and some saw...
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Medicating Kids Proves Deadly

Parents are using cough syrup to medicate their kids into keeping quiet, often with deadly results. That’s the urgent warning coming from a team of doctors. They looked at 189 children who died fro...
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New Drug May Help Chronic Lung Disease Patients

An experimental drug holds out hope against chronic lung disease. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say they’ve had success shielding mice from some of the lingering effects of tobacco smoke ...
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Vitamins Prove Ineffective in Study

The 10 Billion dollars worth of vitamin pills Americans pop every year really do nothing for health and may even be harmful. That’s according two large studies involving 50,000 people. The Los Ange...
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