Friday’s Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.

Volume 9, Issue 12
February 20, 2009
Joan Costello, Editor
IS COPD GENETIC? HELP US FIND OUT
I just wanted to let you know that the Weinberg Adult Clinical Research Unit at National Jewish Health offers a one-day study including a 6-minute walk test with O2 saturation, as well as a CT scan, blood draw and a Quality of [...]

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Fridays Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.

Volume 9, Issue 8
January 23, 2009
Joan Costello, Editor
COPD AND CLINICAL TRIALS
What Every COPD Patient Should Know About Clinical Trials. By Deborah Trendel, RN, About.com: What do clinical trials and research studies have in common? Actually, they both mean the same thing — a scientific study that is conducted to determine whether a new drug or [...]

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Friday’s Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.

Volume 8, Issue 48
October 31, 2008
HOW TO UNDERSTAND HOW CLINICAL TRIALS WORK IF YOU ARE A PATIENT
Part 1: By Sarah Wilson, CCRP. Without human volunteers and clinical trials, the research community will have a very difficult time proving new therapeutic ideas and offering new treatments to the public. The warning labels on your medicine bottles [...]

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Friday’s Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.

Volume 8, Issue 46
October 16, 2008
Here we are a day early. My daughter and I are leaving shortly for the Covered Bridge Festival in Parke County, Indiana. There are 30 historical covered bridges in all, surrounded by corn and soy bean fields which magically grow flea markets and food vendors for the 10 day Festival. [...]

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Friday’s Newsletter from COPD Support, Inc.

Volume 8,
Issue 45
edited by Joan Costello
HOW TO SAVE MONEY ON YOUR ALBUTEROL HFA INHALER
By Kathleen MacNaughton, R.N., About.com: The new HFA inhaler prescriptions are more expensive than their old CFC counterparts. This is especially true of the albuterol inhalers used as rescue medicine when asthma attacks begin. Unlike many of the current controller medicines, albuterol [...]

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