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http://www.healasthma.com past six monthsthe past twelve months Search Hint: Connecting terms with OR broadens your search to give more results …more on search operators – Herald Hundred A SPECIAL BUSINESS REPORT SectorSnapshot Biotech firms receive good and bad news Good and bad news for biotech firms What began as the biotech triumph of the year turned into a potential health problem for patients bent on losing weight – and a ballooning financial headache for a company in Lexington.Interneuron Pharmaceuticals Inc. won approval for the diet drug dexfenfluramin, also known as Redux, in late . It works like the combination known as fen/phen to reduce users’ appetites by altering levels of a brain chemical. Sales took off.But in the FDA received… . Stuart News, The A SMORGASBORD OF MUSCLE- BUILDING DRUGS TEMPS ATHLETES Steroids WASHINGTON – The laboratory door is open and business is brisk for athletes willing to trade honor for a chance at victory.Even though the smorgasbord of performance-enhancing drugs not live up to athletes’ beliefs, many of the drugs work, said Dr. E. Randy Eichner of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.And technology can’t reliably tell when an athlete is taking banned drugs. “Athletes who cheat seem… . LOCAL Sepracor earnings MARLBORO – Sepracor Inc. yesterday reported first-quarter net income of . million, or cents per share fully diluted.The pharmaceutical developer’s results for the quarter ended included a one-time gain of . million from the sale of ChiRex Inc. common stock.Sepracor’s revenues for the first quarter were . million. Excluding the one-time gain, Sepracor would have reported a net loss of million, or cents per… . (New Jersey) – KEEPING ARTHRITIS AT BAY EXERCISE HELPS, TO A POINT Former competitive athletes have a much higher incidence of arthritis (Journal of Rheumatology, ), while older people who exercise regularly but who have not competed at high levels have a much lower incidence (British Medical Journal, ).Bones are so soft that they have to be covered at each joint with a thick white gristle called cartilage. Otherwise, they would rub against each other and be worn away.Cartilage changes all the time. It is constantly being… . DRUG MISUSE FEARED, ASTHMA DEATHS SPUR RESEARCHERS Twenty people have died since a drug for chronic asthma hit the market in , many of them apparently because they kept taking more of the drug, mistakenly believing that it would immediately relieve their breathing problems.The drug, Serevent, is very effective at preventing asthma attacks, and its effects last longer than other drugs, experts agree. But it doesn’t treat actual asthma attacks, because it takes at least minutes to begin working…. . BITS `N’ PIECES GIVE IT A SHOT If you haven’t already done so, women, please get your rubella vaccination. Despite what had been thought to be the near eradication in this country of the disease, also known as German measles, surprisingly large numbers of pregnant women are still contracting it and, in the process, endangering their unborn children, the Centers for Disease Control reports.Rubella can cause severe birth defects and even death to the fetus early in a pregnancy.+… . Kevin, M.D Medical Weblog – Why does my new asthma inhaler suck? Questions surrounding the CFC to HFA inhaler transition Mar. , ( Kevin, M.D Medical Weblog delivered by Newstex) Beginning this year, inhaled beta-agonist asthma medications had to switch to a more