Inhaled steroids protected 9/11 firefighters: study
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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Federal health officials have drawn up a plan for autopsies of Sept. 11 workers when they die, to determine whether they were slowly killed by their exposure to World Trade Center dust.
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Sept. 27, 2004 -- Scientists may be one step closer to solving the mystery behind the steps that trigger asthma. Experts have discovered a type of specialized regulatory cell that reduces asthma and airway
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Children with persistent stuffy nose due to allergy, or "allergic rhinitis," who receive intranasal treatment with the steroid triamcinolone acetonide for one year do not appear to have slower than normal rates of growth, researchers reported here this week at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. However, they say, longer follow-up is needed to completely rule out an effect on adult height.
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Following an asthma flare-up, children who are given inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) with a nebulizer are less likely to be re-hospitalized or need to go the ER than are their peers using steroids delivered by a non-nebulizer device, a new study shows.
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Children with allergic conditions such as asthma may receive too high a dose of steroids, drug experts warn.
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Most of the health problems reported after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have involved respiratory difficulties and mental distress, according
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TUESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors who participated in a drug company-sponsored trial of asthma medications were more likely to prescribe that company's drugs.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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NEW YORK  - Asthma provoked by physical exertion is a common and often unrecognized occurrence in collegiate athletes, a study shows.
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After an ER visit for asthma, a single steroid shot is just as good as an 8-day course of steroid pills at preventing a disease relapse, new research suggests. The authors believe that the shot might be particularly useful for patients who have difficulty taking the pills as prescribed.
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NEW YORK -- Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2001.
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US government advisers&#39; report finds tentative evidence that exposure to combustible products affected the health of vets, but they stop short of declaring a solid connection.
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Nearly half of the over 1,000 screened  rescue workers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks  suffer from new or exacerbated respiratory, mental and other  health problems, according to a government report released on  Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - The wildfires that swept through Southern California in 2003 may have caused wheezing and other respiratory problems in many children, even those without asthma, according to a new study.
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By JILL SCHENSUL, STAFF WRITER OK, so maybe I was blind as a bat without my glasses on. Maybe I wasn't in military-grade health and could burst into status asthmaticus at any time. And, no, I haven't logged 1,000 hours behind the controls of a jet fighter.
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Even elite athletes find it tough to work out: a new study shows that a surprising number of them suffer from exercise-induced asthma