New treatment reduces severity of asthma attacks in preschoolers

The largest study of its kind on preschoolers has demonstrated that preventive treatment with high doses of inhaled corticosteroids is effective in reducing the severity and duration of asthma attacks triggered by colds. Dr Francine Ducharme, assistant director of clinical research at the Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre and a paediatrics professor at the Universite de Montreal, led the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine...

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