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Professor Bruce Thompson, Head of Physiology Services at The Alfred, is trialling a new approach for asthma. |
Exciting research, based around finding a cure for asthma, has led to some new thinking about the disease, which affects one in 10 Australians.
The Alfred’s Head of Physiology Services Professor Bruce Thompson will trial a new approach by treating asthma not as a respiratory disease, but as a rash. Part of the Centre for Research Excellence on Asthma, a national effort involving investigators around the country, Prof Thompson said the approach is to think differently.
“We’ll be using a commonly used antibiotic that has an anti-inflammatory
property. We’ve nebulised the drug so it can be inhaled.
No one has done this before.