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...confirm that the drug was indeed effective, Drazen and Israel tested over 100 patients who suffered from asthma over a four-week period...
According to a study published by two researchers at the Medical School, a new drug treatment has successfully reduced asthma symptoms in clinical trials...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Elliot Israel and Francis Professor of Medicine Jeffrey M. Drazen demonstrated that a drug called zileuton was effective in improving lung function after an asthma attack as well as reducing asthma symptoms over a month-long period...
...drug is an attractive alternative to beta-agonist, the traditional asthma treatment which is taken as an inhalant. Rather than simply relaxing muscles which have already contracted, zileuton inhibits activity of the molecule which initially causes the muscle to contract...
Their data, which showed improved asthma symptoms in patients who had received the drug, was published in the December issue of The Annals of Internal Medicine...