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http://www.healasthma.com past six monthsthe past twelve months Search Hint: Connecting terms with AND narrows your search to give more precise results …more on search operators – Wildfires Threaten California New Orleans Launches Investigation Into Allegations of Police Looting Interview With Senator Mary Landrieu and Senator David Vitter PAULA ZAHN, ANCHOR: And good evening from the nation’s capital, where, tonight, we are not only keeping our eyes on the disaster zone along the Gulf Coast. We are also watching a potential disaster developing near Los Angeles, a huge wildfire threatening communities just northwest of the city. It is centered around the town of Chatsworth. And it is so big that people in the West hills neighborhood are worried, too. And that’s exactly where we find Thelma… . Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat More camp kids pack their prescriptions Editors: Please note breakout material at end Editors: Edited by USA TODAY By MICHELLE LEFORT USA TODAY The campfire is smoking, the marshmallows are toasting, and kids are lining up for their evening medications. It not conjure the same nostalgic images of summers past, but for many children, making sure they take their pills is just part of the camp experience.Rachel Rubingh, camp nurse at YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin in Middleville, Mich., calls out campers’… Blumenthal works out pharmaceutical settlements AG’s lawsuit leads to a fine and the donation of medicine to free clinics Pharmaceutical company Dey Inc. has agreed to pay the state . million and donate , worth of drugs to be used at free clinics, settling charges of illegally inflating the cost of medication that treats childhood asthma and other ailments. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sued Dey and six other pharmaceutical companies for artificially inflating the average wholesale prices of drugs. The state and federal government use the AWP for specific drugs to determine reimbursement… . HEALTH & MEDICINE FOCUS: ASTHMA Teaching children to treat themselves Illness hits close to home for this doctor, who says older kids can help manage the disease Dr. Lynnette Mazur had been treating children with asthma and counseling their parents for more than a decade, when her own daughter developed the increasingly common respiratory illness. “She was years old. She came down with pneumonia, then all the classic symptoms appeared – the coughing, the wheezing. There’s an irony here,” said Mazur, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston who specializes in… . Gazette, The (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA) – Stopping the flush of drugs, money NOT BEING ABLE to redistribute perfectly safe prescription drugs is as wasteful as flushing hundred-dollar bills down the toilet. And, in many cases, even more expensive.Iowa has taken an important first step in changing all that. With its new prescription drug donation repository, Iowa joins at least other states that allow recycling of leftover prescription drugs after a patient recovers, dies or is taken off the drugs for some other reason.The Iowa Department of Public Health… . Repository, The (Canton, OH) – Drugs vary in effect from person to person Q: My wife developed high blood pressure several years ago. Our doctor prescribed a drug called atenolol, and it worked for her almost immediately and has ever since.A few months ago I developed high blood pressure also and asked for the same drug. But it doesn�t seem to work for me. Now the doctor wrote a prescription for another drug, but it costs three times as much. Do you have any advice? � A.M., Long Island, N.Y.A: Drugs are approved for use by the FDA… . FD (FAIR DISCLOSURE) WIRE – Q PolyMedica Earnings Conference Call – Final OPERATOR: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Polymedica Corporation’s fiscal fourth quarter and year end teleconference. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. Before the conference begins I would like read the legal Safe Harbor statement for this call. Various remarks that Polymedica make about future expectations and plans and prospects of the Company constitute forward-looking… . FIGHT OF HIS YOUNG LIFE AIR POLLUTION, ASTHMA BANE OF CENTRAL VALLEY’S CHILDREN Ayotli’s face turned red as a choking cough forced the little boy to gasp for every breath. Destiny Alv rez said her -year-old son has had to endure such a coughing fit only a “couple of times,” but that doesn’t make it any less frightening. Alv rez said Ayotli (an Aztec-derived name meaning “messenger from the heavens of the heart”) was approaching his first birthday when the… . Drink up calories, salt with exercise You do not need to take fluids during an athletic competition lasting less than an hour unless the weather is very hot. However, the major limiting factor in longer athletic competitions is dehydration. Lack of salt and calories can also tire you, but failure to replace fluid is the most important factor. It doesn’t make any difference what you drink during a long competition as long as you also get extra salt and calories, either from your drink or from food. You need… . Exercise benefits asthmatics Debbie Kyle couldn’t understand why she felt so winded and out of shape during workouts. She was in her early s and fit, but still couldn’t run on the treadmill without feeling short of breath. Feeling discouraged, she stopped exercising altogether. “I felt like it was work, and I wasn’t enjoying it,” recalls the -year-old student from Los Angeles.Twenty more pounds later, and struggling with allergies, she saw a doctor… – |
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