Visit to doctors must for infants

DUBAI - “Parents should immediately take their child to a paediatrician, if an infant or a child experiences heavy coughing, rapid breathing and fever spread over several days,” experts advise, with the advent of the winter season.

Heartburn drugs don't help children's hard-to-control asthma: study

CHICAGO - An acid reflux drug often used for hard-to-treat asthma doesn't help children with the breathing disease and may cause side effects, a study in 300 children found.

Heartburn drugs don't aid children's asthma

An acid reflux drug often used for hard-to-treat asthma doesn't help children with the breathing disease and may cause side effects, a study in 300 children found.

Acid reflux drug does not improve asthma in children

( Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ) A randomized clinic trial conducted by the American Lung Association's Asthma Clinical Group found that the addition of lansoprazole does not improve asthma symptoms or the control of asthma in children and may increase the risk for upper respiratory infections and other adverse events.

Vitamin D doesn't ease lung disease symptoms: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study of people with moderate or severe lung disease, taking large amounts of vitamin D was not linked to any symptom relief, researchers from Belgium report. Prior research suggested that up to three quarters of people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are deficient in the vitamin. So it was thought that giving them extra vitamin D ...