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June 16, 2015

Level of e-cigarette power contributes to potentially hazardous effects

The higher the power of an e-cigarette, the higher the concentrations of potentially hazardous substances the device produces, including acetaldehyde, acrolein, and formaldehyde. Those are among the findings presented at an international conference of the American Thoracic Society by lead study author Dr. Daniel Sullivan, an internal medicine resident at the University of Texas Southwestern…

May 23, 2013

Antibody gets high marks for asthma

  Asthma exacerbations decreased by 87% in patients treated with an investigational agent that targets the interleukin-4 (IL-4) receptor, results of a placebo-controlled phase II trial showed.   Dupilumab was associated with an exacerbation rate of 6% compared with 44% in the placebo group.   Measures of lung function and asthma control also improved significantly…