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Asthma caused 4600 deaths in the U.S. in 1987, according to Sheffer. The doctor and researcher attributes this high death rate to the fact that "physicians and patients often don't know how serious the disease...
...part of a 12-member federal panel, Harvard Medical School Professors Albert L. Sheffer and Christopher H. Fanta '70 released a report early last month showing that anti-inflammatory drugs will effectively combat the effects of the chronic respiratory disorder...
Given that the genetically inherited disease cannot be cured, Sheffer and Fanta say these findings should help hundreds of thousands of asthmatics lead normal lives...
...report was the work of an expert panel brought together by the National Asthma Education Program at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. This institute is a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, says Sheffer, who chaired the panel and directs the allergy sections at Brigham and Women's and at Deaconess Hospitals...
...panel confirmed that asthma is an air-way inflammatory disease rather than a result of air-way muscle constriction, Sheffer says. This finding is particularly important because it allows doctors to isolate treatment drugs for their patients...