gary larsen

(National Jewish Medical and Research Center) 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.