The availability of medicines the public is a problem with most acute health care systems. Not only issue physical medicines, their in pharmacies, but also economic assistance population to purchase drugs relevant. To overcome these problems, Government has recognized introduction reimbursement process pharmaceutical sector. content improving quality and life expectancy population, increasing a...

OBJECTIVES Children from Indian and Pakistani (South Asian) and black minority groups have relatively high rates of attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments and admissions to hospital in the UK. We examine parents' beliefs and management of childhood asthma that possibly contribute to their greater use of hospital services. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Three London hos...

Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Folk (Tribal) medicines are the major systems of indigenous medicines. Over three-quarters of the world population relies mainly on plants and plant extracts for health care. Unlike many diseases, which can be attributed to the life style of modern man, asthma is an ancient illness. Mast cells play an important role in some type of allergic reaction because the antib...

The Global Asthma Network (GAN), established in 2012, followed the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). ISAAC Phase One involved over 700 000 adolescents and children from 156 centres in 56 countries; it found marked worldwide variation in symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinitis and eczema that was not explained by the current understanding of these diseases; ISAAC P...

BACKGROUND Remission of asthma in adults has been considered to be low but is still not well documented. In children remission occurs with a rate estimated at approximately 50%. Remission of asthma in middle aged and elderly subjects was investigated as part of a population based study of respiratory diseases in Northern Sweden. METHODS In 1986 86% of 6610 subjects participated in a questionn...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the availability of key essential medicines for children in Sri Lanka. METHODS This national survey assessed the availability of 25 key essential medicines for children using the WHO/Health Action International medicine price methodology. Data were collected from a representative sample of 40 public hospitals (Outpatients Department pharmacies), 40 private and 8 'Raj...

Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory and multifactorial respiratory disorder that affects millions of children around the world. In the recent years, for treating many diseases including asthma, the use of complementary and alternative therapies has increased. The purpose of this report is to provide clinical experiences with the use of Iranian Traditional Medicine, in ...

OBJECTIVE Elevated values of body mass index (BMI) have been associated with higher prevalence of asthma in adults. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the association between obesity and asthma severity. METHODS Medical records of two hundred patients older than 20 years of age were evaluated retrospectively. Asthma severity was established after the evaluation of the medical history...