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Reassuring results
Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response
Nov. 19,
2009 -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of The Lancet shows that patients with either variation respond to combination treatment, and that this treatment should be continued, School of Medicine researchers report.
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Flu fight
Recovery act funds new flu drug discovery center at Washington University
Nov. 16,
2009 -- Scientists at the School of Medicine are investigating a new way to fight the flu. With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, they will establish a Drug Discovery Center to identify compounds that enhance the body's natural virus-killing mechanisms to overcome the flu.
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Breathing Easier
Vitamin D's role in preventing asthma studied in pregnant women
Sept. 28,
2009 -- A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.
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Drug-free treatment for uncontrollable asthma
New procedure alleviates symptoms in people with severe asthma
May 18,
2009 -- A new drug-free treatment for asthma has been shown to be effective in an international study of patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma. The results showed statistically significant improvements in quality of life and reductions in asthma attacks and emergency room visits for patients who underwent the treatment.
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Mild acid reflux not an asthma cause
Heartburn medications do not ease asthma symptoms
April 8,
2009 -- The predominance of heartburn among asthma sufferers led many specialists to suspect that acid reflux could be a trigger for the coughing, wheezing and breathlessness of asthma. In fact, it has become standard practice to prescribe heartburn medication to people with poorly controlled asthma, even if they don't have overt acid reflux symptoms. But a new study shows that heartburn medication does not help control asthma symptoms.
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Outstanding practitioner
Flance receives Claypoole Award from American College of Physicians
Feb. 23,
2009 -- I. Jerome Flance, emeritus professor of clinical medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians. The award recognizes an outstanding practitioner of internal medicine who has devoted his or her career to the care of patients.
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Silver's value goes up for ventilator patients
Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
Aug. 19,
2008 -- People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at the School of Medicine and the NASCENT Investigation Group, report that the silver-coated tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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Center's first director
Bradley named head of proton beam therapy center
June 5,
2008 -- Jeffrey Bradley, associate professor of radiation oncology, has been named the first director of the Kling Center for Proton Therapy, a facility for treating cancer patients with a new, highly precise form of radiation therapy. The center is scheduled to open in summer 2009 at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
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Better lung treatment
Personalized therapy for asthma and COPD could soon be here
May 18,
2008 -- Researchers at the School of Medicine have defined a new type of immune response that is activated in patients with severe asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Their discovery could dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
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Research network
School of Medicine to lead international pediatric lung transplant research trials
March 14,
2008 -- The School of Medicine has received a five-year, $3.9 million grant to lead an international research effort designed to improve outcomes for children undergoing lung transplants. Lung-transplant patients are subject to more frequent infections, organ rejection and other complications than patients with other transplanted organs.
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