Article: Drug brings hope for severe asthma sufferers.(News)

Article: Novartis' Xolair approved in UK for severe ...
Pharma Marketletter;  November 14, 2005 ;     679 words ... ... treatment of severe persistent asthma in the UK. The novel agent is designed to block immunoglobin ... condition affects 5.2 million people in the UK. 20% of these are severe sufferers, and the group accounts for over half of the UK's social burden of the disease, which ...

Article: New drug may help severe asthma sufferers
Belfast Telegraph;  March 5, 2009 ;     560 words ... ... separate studies in the UK and Canada. Professor Ian Pavord, from Asthma UK and the senior author ... that as well as reducing severe asthma attacks by up to 50 ... exactly which people with severe asthma will benefit from the ... million people in the UK, including 1.1 million ...

Article: SAR 943, a rapamycin analogue, could benefit patients with ...
Respiratory Therapeutics Week;  March 17, 2003 ;     631 words ... ... benefit patients with severe asthma. "No current therapy ... to be satisfactory for severe asthma, and alternative approaches ... effects in patients with severe asthma." Fujitani and colleagues ... RH12 5AB, W Sussex, UK. To subscribe to the ...

Article: New Drug Candidate for Severe Asthma From Cambridge ...
PR Newswire;  September 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... which is a potential treatment for severe asthma, following recent approval from ... 354 and will take place in the UK at the Marix Drug Development Clinical ... 354 as a potential treatment for severe asthma." Notes to Editors Cambridge ...

Article: Vitamin may help doctors treat severe asthma
The Scotsman;  December 8, 2005 ;     455 words ... ... A sub-group of people with severe asthma show no improvement, even with ... director of the MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of ... implications for patients with severe asthma and could substantially reduce ...

Article: Director William conquers asthma to run Marathon; Runner ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  April 10, 2008 ;     646 words ... ... Marathon on Sunday for Asthma UK. "I was born with bad asthma ... as an emergency case during a severe asthma attack - the day before the ... with his breathing. Asthma UK Cymru say rates of asthma in ... flynn@mediawales.co.uk CAPTION(S): LEGGING IT ...

Article: HRT `can increase risk of severe asthma'
The Independent on Sunday;  October 5, 2003 ;     666 words ... ... hormone replacement therapy could face a higher risk of getting severe asthma, scientists warn. Their findings, disclosed at a major medical ... condition osteoporosis. Professor Gordon Duff, head of the UK's Committee on the Safety of Medicines, disputed Professor ...