Latest Reactive airway disease Stories

LONDON, January 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A fourth occupational asthma claim [http://www.fentons.co.uk/industrial-disease-claims/occupational-asthma-claims ] in three years against the same plastics manufacturing firm has been settled by Fentons Solicitors LLP, after employees developed occupational asthma because they were exposed to the chemical, 'isocyanate'. John Gibney, a member of the specialist Industrial Disease Claims...

By Duplessis, Christopher A Gumpert, Barton ABSTRACT Objective: An observational study was performed with a convenience sample of 38 submariners exposed to diesel exhaust for 9 hours, to assess the development of reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS) after prophylactic corticosteroid treatment. Methods: Twenty-four subjects were available for baseline physical examinations, pulmonary function tests, and chest radiographs, and 16 more subjects were available for interviews; 30 subjects...