According to a new study, some individuals who are suffering from mild asthma and using inhaled steroids on a twice-daily basis, may find it beneficial to take them once a day.
Researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and 20 other centers tried to ascertain whether asthma patients with well-controlled symptoms on a twice-daily [...]
Earlier advice on how to manage asthma may be a little faulty. This is what the Nottingham researchers have found after they conducted a study that will test whether the extra steroids were having an impact. The team gave patients an extra supply of inhalers, and told them to break into it when their peak [...]
As per a study, adults and children with asthma can have more control over asthma with inhaled corticosteroids than with cromolyn.
This study was conducted by James Guevara, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues to make comparisons between the two treatments (inhaled corticosteroids and cromolyn) to find the better of the [...]
General Practioners are encouraged to initially discuss the potential risks of inhaled-steroids to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD patients. This is in relation to the recent study which directly links inhaled corticosteroids to pneumonia, osteoporosis and adrenal suppression.
According to Dr John Haughney of the General Practice Airways Group, GPs should explain the potential risks [...]