Issue 112 WHITE-MARKHAM and WILKINSON, William Osler Health Centre, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, andrea_white-markham@oslerhc.org, have reviewed (43 references) the evidence for complementary and alternative therapies in the management of asthma.... more Issue 107 EPSTEIN and colleagues, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, have conducted a pilot study on the effects of mental imagery on adults with asthma.... more Issue 106 GYOERIK and BRUTSCHE, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, have reviewed (61 references) the evidence for complementary and alternative therapies for asthma.... more Issue 103 FORD and co-workers, Division for environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA, esf@cdc.gov, have studied the antioxidant levels in the blood of... more Issue 102 WHITE-MARKHAM and WILKINSON, William Osler Health Centre, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, andrea_white-markham@oslerhc.org, have reviewed (43 references) complementary and alternative medicine in the management of asthma.... more Issue 101 HARIK-KHAN and co-workers, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, write about the levels of antioxidant vitamins in serum and the risk of asthma in children.... more Issue 99 AKAH and colleagues, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Enugu State, Nsukka, Nigeria, peterakah@hotmail.com, have evaluated the anti-asthmatic properties of Asystasia gangetica leaf extract... more MILOJEVIC and KURUC, Institut za plucne bolesti, Sremska Kamenica, Medicinski fakultet, Novi Sad, drmilojevic@yahoo.com, have investigated low power laser biostimulation in the treatment of bronchial asthma.... more Issue 94 SPECTOR and SURETTE, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, calallergy@dnamail.com, have reviewed the role of dietary fat in the management of asthma.... more Issue 92 MIHRSHAHI and colleagues, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia, report on the eighteen months outcomes of house dust mite avoidance and dietary fatty acid modification in childhood asthma prevention.... more Issue 91 OMENAAS and colleagues, Department of Thoracic Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway, ernst.omenaa@haukeland.no, have found that dietary vitamin C intake is inversely related to coughing and wheezing in young smokers.... more RAM and co-workers, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, Tooting, UK, fram@sghms.ac.uk, have reviewed (30 references) breathing re-training for asthma.
Abstract: A systematic review of the lite... more Issue 90 MEDICI and co-workers, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, media@bluewin.ch, have conducted a long-term randomized study of real versus sham acupuncture in patients with bronchial asthma.... more OMLAND and colleagues, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, University Park Building. 260, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, DK 8000 Aarhus C, OM@aas.nja.dk, have found that selenium in serum and urine is associated with mild a... more Issue 89 HONDRAS and colleagues, Consortial Center for Chiropractic, 30W009 Willow Court, Warrenville, Illinois 60555-1018, USA, mhondras@interaccess.com, reviewed (73 references) manual therapies for asthma.... more MARTIN and colleagues have reviewed (32 references) and meta-analyzed 11 published randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for asthma.... more Issue 86 GAZDIK and co-workers, Department of Clinical Immunology, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, report decreased levels of coenzyme Q10 in patients with bronchial asthma .... more Issue 84 ROMIEU and colleagues, Instituto Nacional do Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, iromieu@correo.insp.mx, investigated antioxidant supplementation and lung function among children with asthma who are exposed to high levels of air pollutants .... more Issue 78 MANOCHA and colleagues, Natural Therapies Unit, Royal Hospital for Women, New South Wales, Australia, evaluated Sahaja yoga as adjunctive treatment for asthma patients who continue to experience asthma symptoms despite taking moderate to high doses of inha... more Issue 74 RAKHOV and REBROV [no affiliation provided] assessed whether acupuncture added to conventional medical treatment could have an additional beneficial effect in bronchial asthma patients with autonomic dysfunction .... more RITZ, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Veteran's Administration, Palo Alto Health Care System, CA, USA, identified and reviewed (80 references) studies on relaxation training for the treatment/management of asthma in a... more Issue 54 FORASTIERE and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, regional Health Authority, Lazio, Rome, Italy. oer.f.forastiere@agora.stm.it studied the consumption of fruit rich in vitamin C in relation to wheezing and other respiratory symptoms in Italian childre... more HACKMAN and colleagues, University of California, Davis 95616 USA write that asthma, one of the most common chronic diseases of the western world, has significant effects upon patients' quality of life.... more KALAYCI and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey studied serum levels of antioxidants in children with bronchial asthma.... more OKAMOTO and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Misasa Medical Branch, Okayama University Medical School, Tohaku-gun, Tottori Japan compared the effects of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids on bronchial asthma.... more | Issue 34 HODGE and colleagues, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia studied in asthmatic children the clinical and biochemical effects of fish oil and increased omega-3 and reduced omega-6 fatty acids .... more Issue 33 CHAN and colleagues, Graduate Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, China Medical College, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China isolated three new flavonoids, together with twenty-two known compounds, from the heartwood of Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen (Legu... more VEDANTHAN and colleagues, Northern Colorado Allergy Asthma Clinic, Fort Collins 80524, USA studied the therapeutic effects of yoga upon asthma .... more Issue 30 LUDTKE and WIESENAUER, Institut fur Medizinische Informations-verarbeitung, Tubingen, Deutschland.rainer.luedtke @uni-tuebingen.de compared the efficacy of homoeopathically prepared Galphimia glauca with that of placebo in the treatment of pollinosis and e... more Issue 26 ROSS, Environmental Health Center, Dallas, Texas 75231 USA jross@ehcd.com illustrates several characteristic feature of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) with a case history.... more WIGAL and colleagues, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens Georgia USA assessed the effects of experimenter expectancy upon resistance to respiratory air flow in healthy individuals.... more XU and colleagues, Visceral Manifestation Laboratory, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University China studied the effect of strengthening body resistance Chinese method upon asthmatic attacks.... more Issue 24 DAI and colleagues, Department of Pharmacology of Chinese Materia Medica, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China write that Wu-Hu-Tang (WHT) is a Chinese formulation consisting of 7 crude drugs which has been used for the... more KHANAM and colleagues, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi India write that the concept that yoga may be helpful in the treatment of bronchial asthma has stimulated a great deal of interest within medical research fi... more PETERS-FUTRE, Division of Physical Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa writes that moderate submaximal exercise results in neutrophilia, enhanced phagocytic and oxidative capacity of neutrophils. However, it has been hypo... more Issue 23 BLACK and SHARPE, Dept of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand review (72 references) the possible connection between the fall in the consumption of saturated fat, the increased consumption of polyunsaturated fat in the diet and... more BLANC-GRAS and colleagues, Laboratoire de Physiologie, Faculte de Medecine de Grenoble, Paris, France trained 15 asthmatic and 15 healthy children to adjust their breathing pattern to a target pattern displayed on a video screen using visual feedback.... more CAMBACH and colleagues, Dept of Physiotherapy, VU Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands conducted a multicentre randomised controlled study to compare the differences in efficacy between a 3-month rehabilitation programme including drug treatment and a 3-mo... more COHEN and colleagues, Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tiqva, Israel sought to discover whether vitamin C has a protective effect upon the hyperreactive airways of people with exercise-induced asthma (EIA).... more ESTEVE and colleagues, Unite IRM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, France studied the effects of a particular breathing pattern training (BPT) upon forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) in patients... more YOKOTA and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, Yokahama City University, Japan determined the allergenic proteins in commercially available butter and margarine, extracted the protein fractions and analysed them immunologically against milk, hen egg and... more Issue 21 FEDOSEEV and colleagues, Eastern Europe researched the treatment of bronchial asthma with dietary therapy.... more LEWITH and WATKINS, University of Southampton UK write that acupuncture, homoeopathy, mind-body therapies and nutritional, herbal and environmental medicine have all been applied in the treatment of patients with asthma. This paper reviews (105 references)... more SCHERRER-CROSBIE and colleagues, Departement de Medecine Nucleaire, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 296, Creteil, France write that cigarette smoking increases the permeability of alveolar epithelium to small solutes. The au... more Issue 20 HEMILA, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland writes that various studies have shown an increased risk of respiratory infections in people performing heavy physical exercise. Since vitamin C has been shown to affect some components o... more MONTELEONE and SHERMAN, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick USA write that the search for the causes of asthma has led to the investigation of genetic, atopic, viral a... more NESS and colleagues, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge UK studied the relationship between respiratory function and vitamin C levels in blood plasma.... more Issue 19 ADRABOVA and colleagues, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovak Republic write that lowered selenium (Se) status has been observed in asthma patients. Increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), due to inflammatory con... more PEAT, Dept of Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia writes in this review (185 references) that environmental factors which have changed within the past decade appear to be largely responsible for the increased prevalence of asthma in affluent cou... more |
