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...careful about what's in your medicine cabinet. Prolonged use of some medications, such as steroids (prescribed for asthma, arthritis and kidney disease), anticonvulsants (for seizure disorders) or aluminum-based antacids, can weaken your bones. Smoking and drinking are both bad for bones, as is prolonged weightlessness, for anybody who plans to work on the space station...
...mayor of Friendship Heights, Md., has proposed an outdoor smoking ban because, according to the Washington Post, "citizens with asthma or other illnesses 'cannot have full access' to areas where smokers are doing their evil deed. The mayor compares this horrific possibility to Rosa Parks being sent to the back...
...Hopkins University study called "Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Illness," about 40% of the U.S. working-age population has some form of chronic condition, defined as any that persists for a year or longer. With the number of workers who suffer from chronic illnesses like asthma and diabetes on the rise, and life expectancy extending for patients with diseases like cancer and AIDS, employers are looking for new ways to manage and retain chronically ill employees, attempting to navigate a terrain studded with legal, logistical and insurance land mines...
Another delivery system, the inhaler, is getting a second look. While inhalers have been used for years to treat asthma and, more recently, cystic fibrosis, only 10% of the medication actually reaches the deepest regions of the lungs. Battelle and other companies are designing inhalers that use compressed air and drug powders to push much more of the medication deep enough into the lungs to be effectively absorbed. Among the drugs that researchers hope will be administered with the new inhalers are antibiotics, insulin and interferon. Other new systems enable doctors to apply drugs through the eyes or through...
FLASH! Still calculating whether hormone-replacement therapy is for you? Here's one for the minus column. Granted, asthma isn't common in postmenopausal women, but a new study reveals that those who take hormones increase their risk of developing the illness...