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Research Updates: asthma
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Issue 137
FOGARTY and co-authors, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Rd, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK, andrew.fogarty@nottingham.ac.uk, have found that vitamin C, but not magnesium, reduces the consumption of1
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Issue 129
PATEL and others, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK, have studied the relationship between antioxidants and asthma.
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Issue 129
SLADER and colleagues, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, have investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicine in asthma.
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Issue 112
WHITE-MARKHAM and WILKINSON, William Osler Health Centre, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, andrea_white-markham@oslerhc.org, have reviewed (43 references) the evidence for complementary and alternative therapies in the ma1
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Issue 107
EPSTEIN and colleagues, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, have conducted a pilot study on the effects of mental imagery on adults with asthma.
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Issue 106
GYOERIK and BRUTSCHE, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, have reviewed (61 references) the evidence for complementary and alternative therapies for asthma.
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Issue 103
FORD and co-workers, Division for environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA, esf@cdc.gov, have studied the antioxidant lev1
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Issue 102
WHITE-MARKHAM and WILKINSON, William Osler Health Centre, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, andrea_white-markham@oslerhc.org, have reviewed (43 references) complementary and alternative medicine in the management of asthma.
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Issue 101
HARIK-KHAN and co-workers, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, write about the levels of antioxidant vitamins in serum and the risk of asthma in children.
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Issue 99
AKAH and colleagues, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Enugu State, Nsukka, Nigeria, peterakah@hotmail.com, have evaluated the anti-asthmatic properties of As1
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Issue 99
MILOJEVIC and KURUC, Institut za plucne bolesti, Sremska Kamenica, Medicinski fakultet, Novi Sad, drmilojevic@yahoo.com, have investigated low power laser biostimulation in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
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Issue 94
SPECTOR and SURETTE, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, calallergy@dnamail.com, have reviewed the role of dietary fat in the management of asthma.
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Issue 92
MIHRSHAHI and colleagues, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia, report on the eighteen months outcomes of house dust mite avoidance and dietary fatty acid modification in childhood asthma prevention.
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Issue 91
OMENAAS and colleagues, Department of Thoracic Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway, ernst.omenaa@haukeland.no, have found that dietary vitamin C intake is inversely related to coughing and wheezing in y1
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Issue 91
RAM and co-workers, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, Tooting, UK, fram@sghms.ac.uk, have reviewed (30 references) breathing re-training for asthma. 1
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Issue 90
OMLAND and colleagues, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, University Park Building. 260, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, DK 8000 Aarhus C, OM@aas.nja.dk, have found that selenium in se1
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Issue 90
MEDICI and co-workers, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, media@bluewin.ch, have conducted a long-term randomized study of real versus sham acupuncture in patients with bronch1
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Issue 89
HONDRAS and colleagues, Consortial Center for Chiropractic, 30W009 Willow Court, Warrenville, Illinois 60555-1018, USA,
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Issue 89
MARTIN and colleagues have reviewed (32 references) and meta-analyzed 11 published randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for asthma.
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Issue 86
GAZDIK and co-workers, Department of Clinical Immunology, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, report decreased levels of coenzyme Q10 in patients with bronchial asthma .