Asthma treatment

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USA TODAY – Reports show Medicare, patients overpay for certain drugs Medicare and its patients pay too much for drugs used to treat emphysema and asthma and those administered to patients on dialysis, reports out today say.The two studies come as Congress debates widening Medicare’s prescription drug coverage and amid growing pressure on the drug industry to justify prices.Medicare could save up to million a year on the six drugs studied if it were allowed to reimburse at the same rate as state Medicaid programs, the reports say…. MORNING BRIEFING GE joins four health giants in Net venture Johnson & Johnson, Baxter International Inc., Abbott Laboratories, Medtronic Inc. and General Electric Co. have agreed to form an Internet-based marketplace for health-care providers.The exchange will allow hospitals and others to link up to suppliers to buy and sell directly online, track orders and find information on products and services, cutting transaction costs and speeding orders.The venture will compete with… . Washington Post – BREATH OF LIFE Childhood asthma has skyrocketed in the past two decades. For some it’s a manageable disease, but others end up in the emergency room. The difference often boils down to money On a dusty afternoon at a summer camp, -year-old Kashaye Gladden joined her friends for a swim in the pond. Afterward the children were hungry and they ran to the air-conditioned dining hall and ate without changing out of their wet bathing suits. A few hours later, when Kashaye started to wheeze, she didn’t have any medicine to make it stop. By the time the camp bus dropped her at home, she was gasping for breath. That night Kashaye’s grandfather carried her… . (Madison, WI) – CHEESE BLINTZES, ASTHMA INHALERS ORDERED RECALLED Cheese blintzes manufactured by a small New York company and sold in states including Wisconsin be contaminated with salmonella, the Food and Drug Administration and New York officials said Friday.Ratner’s Retail Foods is voluntarily recalling frozen cheese blintzes, after two New Yorkers became ill with salmonella, the FDA said. The blintzes — cheese, blueberry-cheese and cherry-cheese — were sold in -ounce packages.Consumers who purchased the blintzes are… . THE NATION Dad arrested after purported carjacking CAMBRIDGE, Md – A man was arrested Thursday after his -year-old son was found dead and his -year-old daughter critically injured in what he claimed was a carjacking by a hitchhiker who threw him into a river. Richard Spicknall, , was questioned by police and then led off in handcuffs about eight hours after the children were found in the car. Police said Spicknall had not been charged and would not say why he was arrested. Prescription asthma… . The Washington Times – Clenbuterol can be dangerous drug Clenbuterol belongs to a class of drugs called beta agonists that are used to treat asthma. Training for sports is done by taking a hard workout, waking up the next morning with sore muscles, and then taking easy workouts until the soreness goes away. Clenbuterol hastens recovery so it can shorten the recovery period from three or more days to just one or two. The athlete can do more work and therefore becomes stronger. Because athletes can gain an unfair advantage and also harm themselves… . The Washington Times – Sports OK for kids with exercise-induced asthma Many children cough, wheeze and become short of breath five to minutes after they start to exercise. They usually have exercise-induced asthma, and they should be encouraged to exercise. Most can compete in sports, provided they know how to prevent attacks. All asthmatics can cough and become short of breath when they exercise, more commonly when they run than when they swim. Asthma is triggered by breathing dry, cold air, and swimming usually does not cause asthma because of the moist air… . (Walnut Creek, CA) – DUBLIN SCHOOL ACCUSED OF HEALTH DISCRIMINATION A Livermore family has filed suit against a Dublin private school it claims turned away their son because he requires asthma medication.Lynn Alvarez said she thought the Fountainhead Montessori School would be a great place for her -year-old son, Jeremy.Alvarez and her husband looked at five or six schools before settling on Fountainhead because of its atmosphere and proximity to Jeremy’s grandparents, she said. Then a school administrator called in , saying a… Serey barred for days after horse flunks drug test Trainer Juan Serey drew a -day suspension Sunday because one of his horses flunked a drug test after finishing second in a race at Belmont last month. The suspension originally was for days, but was reduced because Serey withdrew his appeal.Traces of the prohibited substance Albuterol, a broncho dilator, was found in a post-race test on Shesibg on Sept. . The horse was disqualified and ordered unplaced…. –