Asthma UK Northern Ireland is concerned that key omissions in the draft Service Framework for Respiratory Health and Wellbeing could hinder long-term improvements to the care and treatment of 182,000 people with asthma in Northern Ireland. Despite welcoming the framework, Asthma UK Northern Ireland is...
Asthma UK Northern Ireland Welcomes Draft Respiratory Service Framework But Warns Of Key Omissions
American Lung Association Commemorates World Asthma Day By Helping People With Asthma To Gain Better Control Of Their Symptoms
The American Lung Association joins the Global Initiative for Asthma to commemorate World Asthma Day today. Here in the United States, more than 22 million people-including more than 6 million children are living with asthma. “Far too many people are living with poorly managed asthma and may not...
Vitamin D Levels Linked To Asthma Severity
New research provides evidence for a link between vitamin D insufficiency and asthma severity. Serum levels of vitamin D in more than 600 Costa Rican children were inversely linked to several indicators of allergy and asthma severity, including hospitalizations for asthma, use of inhaled steroids and...
New Chairman For National Asthma Council, Australia
Dr Noela Whitby AM, has been appointed as the new chairman of the National Asthma Council Australia, the peak asthma body in the country. She succeeds Prof John Wilson who served on the National Asthma Council Australia Board as the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand’s representative...
New Role For Lung Epithelial Cells In Sensing Airborne Allergens
WHAT: Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and at Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium, have identified a new role for certain lung cells in the immune response to airborne allergens. Many foreign substances, called...
Union World Conference On Lung Health, Cancun, 3-7 December, 2009
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) is happy to announce the launch of the official website of the 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health, which will be held in Cancún, Mexico on 3-7 December 2009. This year’s conference will focus on the theme “Poverty...
Respiratory Risk From Hospital Cleaning Fluids
Cleaning fluids used in hospitals may pose a health risk to both staff and patients. A pilot study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Environmental Healthhas found that potentially hazardous chemicals are contained in a selection of agents used in several different hospitals. The...
Study Demonstrates That Qvar(R) Is More Likely To Achieve Successful Asthma Control With Less Exacerbations
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) announced results from a study demonstrating that patients receiving Inhaled Corticosteroid (ICS) therapy with QVAR® (Beclomethasone HFA), an ICS that is able to effectively treat both large and small airway inflammation, may be particularly effective...
Lengthy Daily Stints In Front Of The TV Linked To Doubled Childhood Asthma Risk
Young children who spend more than two hours glued to the TV every day double their subsequent risk of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Thorax. The findings are based on more than 3,000 children whose respiratory health was tracked from birth to 11.5 years of age. The...
Asthma More Likely Among Children Who Watch A Lot Of TV, Asthma UK Comment
Dr Elaine Vickers, Research Relations Manager at Asthma UK says: ‘This study does not suggest that watching TV directly causes asthma but uses the amount of time children spend in front of the television as an indication of how much time they spend sitting down rather than running around. ‘The...