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...Some 32% to 84% of asthma patients - the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute estimates there are more than 22 million in the U.S. - may suffer from acid reflux, or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to past research cited in the current study. Only about half of those patients have the usual symptoms of GERD, such as nausea, chest pain or heartburn, but doctors think the condition may exacerbate asthma, possibly by causing aspiration of acid into the lungs. The common practice, set forth by National Institutes of Health guidelines, is to treat asthmatic patients - particularly those who have severe...
...Merkel's win in one of Germany's biggest states, a financial center and home to the European Central Bank, puts wind in her sails as she campaigns on behalf of her party and for her own re-election in September. Gerd Langguth, a political scientist and Merkel biographer, says the Hesse result means Merkel's return to the Chancellery is assured. The real question is whether Merkel will be able to form a coalition with the FDP or continue the so-called grand coalition with the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), he says. "Merkel believes that it would...
...Gerd Langguth , political scientist at Bonn university, calls Steinmeier's appointment "a stop-gap solution, when you get down to it. And if you could speak to him off the record, he'd be the first to acknowledge that. He knows that he is cannon-fodder, the fuel to keep the engine running" until a new generation takes over the party, probably from the left...
...barometer for the biggest players in the business. Universal Music, the world's largest record company, saw its revenues dip slightly last year. Low margins at Sony BMG, the industry's No. 2, have left its own music business ripe for a private-equity buyout this year, says Gerd Leonhard, a music-industry consultant in Switzerland. And shares at No. 3 Warner Music have been in freefall for months; a $16 million first-quarter loss was announced in February...
...Bayreuth opera festival, while preferring to avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made a point of greeting the U.S. First Couple during their earlier visits to Europe. And his views of the U.S. are said to have influenced his wife's as well...