Vivvo CMS 4.1 Health News http://www.healthcanal.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Health News http://www.healthcanal.com/files.php?file=Health News from HealthCanal.com http://www.healthcanal.com/ Long-Acting Beta-Agonists Shown to be Most Effective Step-Up Therapy for Children with Poorly Controlled Asthma http://www.healthcanal.com/child-health/6158-Long-Acting-Beta-Agonists-Shown-Most-Effective-Step--Therapy-for-Children-with-Poorly-Controlled-Asthma.html Child health Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:57:00 +0000 For children whose asthma is not well controlled and on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids, a long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) may be the most effective of three possible step-up treatments. National Jewish clinician-scientists Stanley Szefler, Joseph Spahn, Ronina Covar Gary Larsen and Lynn Taussig, and colleagues in the NIH-funded Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network published their findings March 2, 2010, online in the New England Journal of Medicine. Health News