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Friday, October, 23, 2009

Mometasone

Drugmakers will collaborate on new medicine for asthma, COPD

August 07, 2009
Drugmakers Novartis and Schering-Plough Corp. have announced they will collaborate on a new combination drug to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also known as smoker's cough. The drug will pair the inhaled corticosteroid Asmanex (mometasone) and the experimental beta-agonist drug QAB149 (indacaterol). Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Asthma: Advances in Medications this Decade
By James Thompson, MD , Health Expert

...from it. 3) Asmanex Twisthaler 220 (a brand of Mometasone) became available for treatment of... Read more »

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Which Asthma Medication Is Best?
By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert

...Pulmicort (budesonide) Qvar (beclamethasone) Asmanex (mometasone) Flovent (fluticasone) There... Read more »

Health Guide

Corticosteroids overdose
... Methylprednisolone Methylprednisolone acetate Methylprednisolone sodium succinate Mometasone furoate Prednisolone acetate Prednisolone sodium phosphate Prednisolone... Read more »
Allergic rhinitis
...not relieved by antihistamines alone. These prescription medications include fluticasone (Flonase), mometasone (Nasonex), and triamcinolone (Nasacort). Azelastine (Astelin) is a new, nasal... Read more »
Allergies
...not go away with antihistamines alone. These prescription medications include fluticasone (Flonase), mometasone (Nasonex), and triamcinolone (Nasacort AQ). A newer nasal spray called... Read more »
Allergy to mold: dander - dust
...not relieved by antihistamines alone. These prescription medications include fluticasone (Flonase), mometasone (Nasonex), and triamcinolone (Nasacort). Azelastine (Astelin) is a new, nasal... Read more »
Sinusitis
...you have swollen structures (such as nasal polyps) or allergies. These include fluticasone (Flonase), mometasone (Nasonex), and triamcinolone (Nasacort AQ). Antibiotics are used to cure the... Read more »

Medications

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......used to treat growths in the nose (nasal polyps). Mometasone works by reducing swelling of... Read more »

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......natalizumab drugs affecting liver enzymes that remove mometasone from your body (such as... Read more »

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This medication is used to prevent and treat seasonal and year-round allergy symptoms of the nose... Read more »

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When used regularly, mometasone helps to prevent the wheezing and shortness of breath that can... Read more »

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This medication is used to prevent and treat seasonal and year-round allergy symptoms of the nose... Read more »

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According to new research, people who suffer from hay fever (allergic rhinitis) who use nasal steroid sprays to control their stuffy noses may be... Read summary »