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BONE BUILDER Asthma sufferers and others who require high doses of cortisone run the risk of developing osteoporosis. But brittle bones can be prevented if patients also take the drug etidronate...
INHALER ALERT Just months after researchers warned asthma patients that chronic use of corticosteroid inhalers may be linked to glaucoma, they now find that the lifesaving inhalers may also increase the risk of cataracts...
...your front door. Nor is it easy trying to make a living with only a limited education and without a firm command of the English language. Nor is it easy supporting your family after being forced to give up your job in a garment factory because of severe chronic asthma...
...DIEGO: A research team says it has discovered a mutated gene which makes people susceptible to asthma. The study, conducted by San Diego-based Sequana Therapeutics, focused on a remote population of people on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, located about 1,500 miles southwest of South Africa. Approximately 30 percent of the island's citizens have asthma, which they apparently inherited from an original settler. After studying the DNA of 300 inhabitants, the team was able to pinpoint the location of the gene, potentially paving the way for new drugs which can treat or perhaps cure the ailment...
...hormone levels, is an important step towards isolating a parallel gene in humans. This could allow scientists to zero in on the causes of diseases such as insomnia and depression that are related to disturbances in circadian rhythms. It may also help explain why medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease worsen at certain hours. To do so, scientists must isolate ten more genes related to bodily rhythms. Maybe even in humans...