Asthma treatment

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 – . Study Genes affect response to asthma drug, PERSONALIZED MEDICINE Researchers say find will help tailor prescriptions to people. WASHINGTON — In a step toward an age of “personalized medicines” researchers have found gene variations that affect the way individual asthma sufferers respond to a drug widely used to control acute attacks.Out of thousands of variations in a single gene the researchers said they have identified that determine how well asthma patients respond to albuterol a drug commonly used to prevent or to control acute attacks.The study appears today in the Proceedings… . Capital Times, The (Madison, WI) – BROOM STREET’S ‘ASTHMA’ A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, SORT OF If you’ve always been panting to see giant dancing asthma inhalers, Broom Street Theater obliges with “Breathless, or Is There Sex After Asthma,” Joel Gersmann’s tribute to Azmacort, Alupent, Maxair, Primateme, Brethaire, and Albuterol.“Breathless” is billed as “a comedy about a year in the life of an asthmatic.” It follows the adventures of Dave Salter (Chad Metcalf), a free-lance writer…. . Boston Globe – COMPUTERS & CROUTONS, DRUGS & DRIVER’S LICENSES FIBERSPAR MOVES FROM SAILBOARD MASTS TO HOCKEY STICKS, OIL-RIG TUBING COPLEY PHARMACEUTICALS WEATHERING THE HIGHS, LOWS OF THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY LAU TECHNOLOGIES GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A GIANT IN STRATEGY SHIFT BACHMAN INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC. RECASTS ITSELF, GETS NEW PLAYERS AT/COMM INC. LOOKING TO TRAVEL MANY ROADS WITH TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM SERAGEN INC. SHOWING PROMISE, BUT IT SEEKS PARTNER WITH DEEP POCKETS CHATHAM VILLAGE FINDS IT COSTLY, TIME-CONSUMING TO GO NATIONAL In the year since The Boston Globe began publishing Emerging Business pages, a host of small companies and the people behind them have been profiled in this space. As a sort of birthday celebration, we went back to look at how some of those companies have fared in recent months.It’s another year, another sport.A year ago, Fiberspar Inc. was a profitable million-a-year company making sailboard masts out of carbon fibers woven together by converted textile… . The Hartford Courant – Drug maker recalls asthma medications Asthma sufferers and others who use generic inhalation medication should check the label Several generic brands from one manufacturer be contaminated with bacteria that could cause bronchitis or other infections.Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Solution, . percent, in ml vials, manufactured by Copley Pharmaceutical Inc., is being recalled voluntarily by the firm in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Copley manufactures it under its own name and under the… . The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City) – Asthma patients urged to check their medication A Cedar Rapids physician Friday urged people to check to see if they have bought an asthma medication that has been recalled due to contamination.Pharmacies at Wal-Mart stores are exchanging containers of the contaminated inhalation solution for non-recalled substitutes, Susan Hocklander, a public relations assistant at Wal-Mart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., said Friday. Wal-Mart has stores in several Eastern Iowa communities.Local pharmacies have removed the solution… MEDICATION FOR ASTHMA TAINTED, COMPANY SAYS A Massachusetts generic drug company is recalling millions of vials of an inhalation solution widely used by asthma patients and others with breathing problems.Copley Pharmaceutical Inc. said Wednesday that some of its -milliliter Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Solution had been contaminated by microbial organisms.The company said microbial organisms had been found in certain packages of the product made in the last three months. It does not know what caused the problem…. . McClatchy-Tribune Regional News (USA) – New Year, new inhalers Dec. The new year brings change to Albuterol asthma inhalers, an alteration in the drug’s content as well as a steep increase in price. Local pharmacies say they have worked to prepare patients to get used to the new devices.”We sold by the st,” Manuel Rodriguez, lead technician at the Lawrence Brothers Pharmacy, said. Unlike some pharmacies across the country, Lawrence Brothers still had a few of the old inhalers in stock toward the end of …. . New Year, new inhalers Dec. –The new year brings change to Albuterol asthma inhalers, an alteration in the drug’s content as well as a steep increase in price. Local pharmacies say they have worked to prepare patients to get used to the new devices. “We sold by the st,” Manuel Rodriguez, lead technician at the Lawrence Brothers Pharmacy, said. Unlike some pharmacies across the country, Lawrence Brothers still had a few of the old inhalers in stock toward the end of… . (USA) – Teva Asthma Drug ProAir Gets FDA Approval To Treat Children Between Ages Four, ( ) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s (NASDAQ TEVA) ProAir asthma medication for patients as young as four years old. The albuterol sulfate inhaler, which is used to open up a person’s lungs during an asthma attack, is already approved for patients years of age and older. Albuterol is commonly used in an array of asthma medications. Shares of Israel-based Teva… . Straight From the Doc – Mild-persistent Asthma Patients Switch to Once-daily Flucitasone/Salmeterol ( Straight From the Doc delivered by Newstex) — To prevent the symptoms of mild-persistent asthma, the standard treatment is twice-daily use of an inhaled steroid and sometimes an additional drug such as inhaler albuterol.[Asthma is considered mild, but persistent, when symptoms occur more than two times a week or cause the patient to awaken during the night more than twice a month.] Now, according to new research conducted at Wake Forest University Baptist… –