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New Treatment for Asthma, COPD Is 'a Bit of a Miracle'
This Is a 'Game-Changer' in
Treatment of Asthma, COPD
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This Is a 'Game-Changer' in Treatment of Asthma, COPD

Benralizumab injection resulted in better symptoms, quality of life than standard care

(Newser) - Treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which contributed to Sinead O'Connor's death last year, has been "stuck in the 20th century." But no longer, says Dr. Sanjay Ramakrishnan of the University of Western Australia, co-author of a study offering the first breakthrough treatment...

More Specifics Emerge on What Killed Sinead O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter died of COPD, asthma, according to newly registered death certificate

(Newser) - A year after she died at age 56 , Sinead O'Connor's death certificate now details exactly what caused her death: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma, reports the Guardian . The Irish Independent , which first reported the news, notes that O'Connor's first husband, John Reynolds, registered the...

Why Some Smokers Don't Get Lung Disease
Why Some Smokers
Don't Get Lung Disease
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Why Some Smokers Don't Get Lung Disease

They may carry genes that boost lung function: study

(Newser) - Smokers could soon benefit from new drugs that improve the function of their lungs, owing to the lucky few who smoke for years with little consequence. UK researchers scanned 50,000 smokers and non-smokers, including some who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and identified gene mutations that enhance lung...

Leonard Nimoy: I Have Lung Disease

'I quit smoking too late,' he says

(Newser) - People who want to live long and prosper should quit smoking now, Leonard Nimoy says. The actor best known for playing Spock in Star Trek has been diagnosed with the lung disease COPD at the age of 82—30 years after he quit smoking, which he says wasn't soon...

Smoking Kills Another Marlboro Man

Former bit-part actor dies of COPD

(Newser) - Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson died earlier this month of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his wife Susan says. Lawson was an actor with bit parts on such TV...

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