Asthma treatment

471. (TX) – May 10, 1999 Deja. com lets you know what rates Beginning today, it’s a whole new Deja News. The company, which began in Austin in 1995 as a Web site that archived Internet newsgroups, is changing its name to Deja. com and is billing itself as the Web site for consumers who make buying decisions. The centerpiece of the site is Deja Ratings, which offers ratings on more than 7, 200 items in 400 categories. The products are rated by Deja. com users, who fill out a scaled survey. The idea is that users will research a ….. Toronto (Ontario, Canada) – April 30, 1999 Medications help asthma patients breathe easier Health Lori Swick It is an automatic reflex for asthmatics to reach for a medication puffer or inhaler when they are having difficulties breathing. Generally, nobody needs to remind them. But one factor of asthma management that is not emphasized enough is the need to take medications on a regular basis, even when breathing is normal. In most patients, this prevents them from ever experiencing an asthma attack and getting to the point where they need to use a rescue inhaler to help ….. – April 27, 1999 Grab a tissue It began this year, as it does every year, with the carefree oak tree recklessly flinging its pollen to the wind in hopes of perpetuating its kind. The other trees, ash, elm and maple, are following suit by filling their air with billions upon billions of powderlike male sex cells. Whether you approve of it or not, the trees in your yard, and down your street are having sex, and this annual, botanical orgy known as allergy season isn’t over yet. Grass ….. (Riverside, CA) – April 20, 1999 Easing their wheezing With early identification, proper precautions and the correct medicine, children with severe allergies can lead nearly normal lives. Severe allergies and asthma don’t stop 8-year-old David Villalba Jr. But sometimes they slow him down. “I cough a lot when I play baseball and basketball, ” says David, who lives in Fontana. “And when I run I start getting out of breath. “Since David was 3, molds, pollen, cats, dogs – you name it – have sent him into fits of sneezing and coughing, says his mother, Janine. At first she thought David had normal colds and ….. Herald and the Sunday Herald, The (Glasgow, Scotland) – February 18, 1999 The Herald (United Kingdom): Business: Zeneca says merger with Astra on track: Strong pound weighs on last stand-alone results ZENECA remains confident it can achieve its merger with Astra of Sweden by the second quarter of the year, though competition authorities in the US and Brussels have requested more information. Chief executive Sir David Barnes said their concerns were on a relatively narrow front and he believed that the original timetable for the merger would be followed. It is thought the competition authorities’ concerns relate to anaesthetics. Zeneca has published its final results as ….. Sun Publications (IL) – December 16, 1998 WAITING TO EXHALE Leann Butz admits she still panics each time her 12-year-old son takes off running with his friends from one end of the block to the other. But that’s her nature as a mother, and her concerns are legitimate. She’s heard her son’s wheezing, she’s seen him gasp for air, and she’s made her share of late-night trips to the emergency room. But the memory of the day her then-toddler’s lips turned purple is one the …. Mail on Sunday, The (London, England) – December 13, 1998 The Mail on Sunday (United Kingdom): pounds 46BN MERGER FROM A NIGHT AT THE OPERA As the strains of opera wafted across the lush grounds of Glyndebourne one evening last summer, company bosses Tom McKillop and Hakan Mogren had no thoughts for business. For McKillop, Scottish head of UK firm Zeneca pharmaceuticals, and Mogren, president of the Swedish drugs company Astra, it was a social occasion with their wives. But their idyllic evening deep in the Sussex countryside was to be the backdrop for big decisions. For as the couples gave their rapt attention to Richard …. Courier Mail, The (Brisbane, Australia) – December 11, 1998 Drug groups’ marriage to spur rivals into action THE planned $37. 2 billion marriage of Britain’s Zeneca Group and Sweden’s Astra AB could prompt more mergers, or a counterbid, as drug industry rivals seek to avoid losing their market positions in an industry scrambling to rationalise. Zeneca, Britain’s third-biggest drug company, said this week it planned to buy Astra, Sweden’s No 1, in an all-stock transaction in what it described as “a merger of equals”. The ….. Evening Standard, The (London, England) – December 9, 1998 Evening Standard: Business Day: Zeneca and Astra to tie pounds 47bn knot ZENECA today unveiled the terms of a $77 billion-plus ( pounds 47 billion) merger with the Swedish drugs group Astra, in a move that will create the world’s third-largest drugs company. There was immediate speculation, however, that the deal – Europe’s largest-ever corporate move – would swiftly be broken up by a rival bidder. Until now Zeneca, under its chief executive Sir David Barnes, has vigorously declared its intention to stand aloof from the global merger ….. New York Times, The (NY) – December 9, 1998 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 2 European Drug Giants Talk of Merger Zeneca Group P. L. C. , the third-largest British drug maker, and Astra A. B. of Sweden said yesterday that they were discussing a merger that would be worth at least $30 billion and create the world’s fourth-largest pharmaceutical company. If completed, the merger would be the largest ever in the pharmaceutical industry and would transform two second-tier drug makers into a global powerhouse with $14. 3 billion in sales. The combined company would have a formidable product line, ….