Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inhalant powder given in a salt form, C25H37NO4·C11H8O3, to treat and prevent bronchospasm in patients with asthma.
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- noun a
LABA used in the treatment ofrespiratory diseases .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some Beta-2 agonists have a slower onset of action but a longer period of activity, such as salmeterol xinafoate, and formoterol fumarate.
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(termed B16 Arg/Arg) benefit less from treatment with long-acting beta-2 agonists such as salmeterol and inhaled corticosteroids than do those with two genes coding for amino acid glycine (termed B16 Gly/Gly) at this position.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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(termed B16 Arg/Arg) benefit less from treatment with long-acting beta-2 agonists such as salmeterol and inhaled corticosteroids than do those with two genes coding for amino acid glycine (termed B16 Gly/Gly) at this position.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Big Pharma and the FDA have known for years that formoterol fumarate, found in Symbicort, Dulera and Foradil, and salmeterol, found in Advair Diskus and Serevent Diskus, can paradoxically cause asthma deaths, especially in children and African-Americans.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Ziering conducted trials on salmeterol the LABA, Flonase and other respiratory drugs and wrote medication-friendly papers like Allergic rhinitis.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In one study, conducted at Vivra and elsewhere, more than 40 percent of people on Singulair and salmeterol the LABA in Advair had adverse events, two withdrew with -- anybody?
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Ziering conducted trials on salmeterol the LABA, Flonase and other respiratory drugs and wrote medication-friendly papers like Allergic rhinitis.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In one study, conducted at Vivra and elsewhere, more than 40 percent of people on Singulair and salmeterol the LABA in Advair had adverse events, two withdrew with -- anybody?
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, salmeterol, the drug in Advair and Serevent, is considered so unsafe, a huge trial called the Salmeterol Multi-center Asthma Research Trial, or SMART was terminated in 2003 after there were 16 deaths, 44 intubations and 369 hospitalizations on LABAs, mostly in African-Americans 16 deaths, 44 intubations.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Big Pharma and the FDA have known for years that formoterol fumarate, found in Symbicort, Dulera and Foradil, and salmeterol, found in Advair Diskus and Serevent Diskus, can paradoxically cause asthma deaths, especially in children and African-Americans.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Taking These Asthma Drugs? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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