Black asthmatic teens more resistant to steroid-based asthma treatment
Black teens suffering from asthma are three times more likely to have steroid-resistant asthma than their white counterparts with the disease, as per a research conducted at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
Joseph Spahn, M.D., a pediatric allergist and director of the Immunopharmacology Lab at National Jewish said that African-American children are at a [...]
Asthma attacks among preschoolers can be reduced with inhaled corticosteroids
The largest study of its kind on preschoolers has highlighted the fact that high dosages of inhaled corticosteroids can be used as preventive treatment for reducing the severity and time duration of asthma attacks, which are triggered by colds.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by Dr. Francine Ducharme, [...]