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Article: Daily budesonide, formoterol works for asthma.(Pulmonary Medicine)(Clinical report)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- November 1, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Used once daily, a single pressurized metered-dose inhaler containing both budesonide and formoterol provided good asthma control in patients with mild to moderate persistent asthma, according to a series of poster presentations at the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society.
The poster presentations--by Dr. William E. Berger of a group practice specializing in allergy and asthma in Mission Viejo, Calif.; Dr. Eugene R. Bleeker, professor of medicine at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.; and three employees of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals L.P.--reported on different aspects of the same five-arm, randomized, controlled ...