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'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland.


New treatment found to reduce vision loss from central retinal vein occlusion

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have identified the first long-term, effective treatment to improve vision and reduce vision loss associated with blockage of large veins in the eye. This research was part of a multi-center, phase III clinical ...


Corticosteroid injections may be helpful to manage vocal fold polyps without surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corticosteroid injections appear to offer an alternative to surgery for treating polyps on the vocal cords, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.


New Way to Fight Fungal Infection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by Amy G. Hise, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor at the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, has discovered how the body ...


Researchers at Case Western Reserve discover a new way the body fights fungal infection

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created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

A team of researchers led by Amy G. Hise, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor at the Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is the first to discover how the body fights off ...


Vitamin D may halt lung function decline in asthma and COPD

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created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Vitamin D may slow the progressive decline in the ability to breathe that can occur in people with asthma as a result of human airway smooth muscle (HASM) proliferation, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.