They also advised patients to choose paracetamol after finding only 7% of adult asthma patients were sensitive to it.
The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested.
In one study, only two of 767 patients on Xolair were hospitalized, compared to 18 hospitalizations for 638 asthma patients on standard therapy.
In 1948 one study of 2, 200 asthma patients found a fivefold-higher death rate for patients who inhaled epinephrine, a beta drug, versus those who hadn't.
Yet a Glaxo study in 2004 found that 60% of asthma patients could control their disease with just the inhaled steroid Flovent, the other half of Advair.
Asthma patients taking Advair and other drugs containing salmeterol are advised to monitor their symptoms closely and to have a clear plan to seek help if their symptoms get worse.
In 1993, a year before Serevent made its debut, a Glaxo study found 12 asthma deaths among almost 17, 000 patients on Serevent for four months, three times the death rate in an equivalent control group of asthma patients.
Thanks to that and Advair's nifty delivery system--a plastic purple puck that is easy to use--the drug has moved far beyond a narrow audience of severe asthma patients to reach those with mild cases and nonasthmatics who simply have a bad bronchial cough.
In tests on more than 4, 000 patients, Xolair was able to dramatically reduce asthma complications and lessen patients' need for high doses of inhaled steroids to control their symptoms.
In tests on seven people with nocturnal asthma, 13 non-nocturnal asthmatics and 11 non-asthmatics, lung function tests revealed that patients with nocturnal asthma had the highest levels of melatonin and the greatest drop in lung function overnight.
He tried to persuade drug firms to test their asthma drugs on heart patients, but no one was interested in the seemingly wacky idea.
The Lewin study also "found evidence of lower emergency room utilization and improved access to physician services" from "care management programs" for Medicaid patients with asthma, diabetes, heart problems and mental health disorders.
She pored over the results of 19 previous trials of Serevent-style drugs and found that patients have twice the rate of asthma hospitalizations, twice the rate of life-threatening asthma and four times as many deaths as patients who aren't on those drugs.
Professor Martyn Partridge, chief medical adviser to Asthma UK, said it had previously been difficult to show that smoking causes asthma as it only needed a few patients with lung disease to be wrongly classified as having asthma to skew the results.
He added doctors also had to be more aware aspirin could trigger asthma, and should advise patients accordingly.
In 2000, 7.5% of patients experienced persistent asthma compared to 8.2% in 1997.
Dr Bernard Higgins of BTS said he believes the recommendations will "reduce a worsening in symptoms for patients with mild asthma".
Xolair works by targeting an immune-system molecule called immunoglobulin E (IgE), a crucial defensive weapon that goes into overdrive in many patients with allergic asthma.
It also encourages healthcare professionals to provide patients with a written Asthma Action Plan, to help them more effectively manage their condition.
We have one insurer who refers patients to us for asthma management.
Suppose a manufacturer has a high-priced, branded drug for asthma, used mostly by younger patients, and a high-priced drug for arthritis, used mostly by the old.
With Advair, "patients get control of their asthma faster, " she maintains.
The company provides its services to over 750, 000 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases such as asthma or emphysema.
Scientists believe the results suggest that montelukast could be an effective option to current asthma therapies in 6- to 14-year-old patients.
Respiratory therapists address patients with cardiopulmonary disorders or breathing problems such as asthma, and also care for babies born prematurely or with congenital heart diseases.
In trials involving 4, 300 patients, the medicine has been shown to reduce asthma attacks and hospitalisations, and to help improve lung function and quality of life.
In the US, 10 people a day die from asthma attacks, so they are really playing Russian roulette with their patients.
The company delivers oxygen supplies to home-based patients suffering from such ailments as emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthma.
The search is difficult because doctors, scientists and patients aren't used to thinking of rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and Alzheimer's disease as having the same root cause.
Still, many parents, sports coaches and doctors who aren't respiratory specialists either don't know that exercise can be helpful for kids with asthma, or they don't routinely talk about exercise with their patients.
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