Engineering Undergrads Create Game-Changing Asthma Management Device

An estimated 300 million people in the world suffer from asthma. That number is expected to grow to more than 400 million by 2025. While diagnosis and treatment in the United States is accessible, people living in the developing world have a much more difficult time. Thanks to a new product being developed by engineering students at Washington University in St. Louis, those millions of people may have new hope.

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Utah Researchers Receive Award to Study Asthma Monitoring in Children

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a $1.9 million research award to the University of Utah to study asthma in children and how better monitoring of the disease could improve health.

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Nearly 5 Million Asthmatics Worldwide Could Benefit From Antifungal Therapy

An estimated 4,837,000 asthmatics with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) could benefit substantially from antifungal treatment, say researchers from the University of Toronto and Manchester University.

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Study Demonstrates That Once-a-Day Pill Offers Relief From Ragweed Allergy Symptoms

An international team of researchers, led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins, reports that a once-daily tablet containing a high dose of a key ragweed pollen protein effectively blocks the runny noses, sneezes, nasal congestion and itchy eyes experienced by ragweed allergy sufferers.

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