For Mild Asthma, Less Medicine Might Be Right

Summary


People with mild asthma may not need daily medicine to prevent flare-ups, as doctors now recommend.

A study found that patients who take medicine only when asthma attacks occur fare about as well as those who swallow a pill or use inhaled steroids every day.

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For Mild Asthma, Less Medicine Might Be Right

If a bigger, longer study confirmed the results and patients with mild asthma switched to attacks-only treatment, abou...

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