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Do you take Advair or Symbicort for your asthma? The Asthma Research Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital is recruiting asthmatics aged 18-75 who have been diagnosed with asthma.

The research study is 52 weeks long and involves only 4 visits to the Asthma Research Center. The compensation is $200 and the study would pay for one year's worth of medication co-payments up to $50.00 per month.

The study compares the effects of adding a long acting beta agonist (an inhaled medication commonly used in asthma treatment e.g. serevent or foradil) or an anticholinergic (e.g. Spiriva, a medication commonly used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) to therapy with an inhaled corticosteroid, in people with two distinct types of asthma-related genes. All study medications are FDA-approved.

Call us at 617-732-8201 or 1-888-99 ASTHMA or click the link below to get more information or to see if
you qualify.

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Elliot Israel, M.D.
Elliot Israel Director
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School And Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Elliot Israel graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Israel serves as the Director of Clinical
Research in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Israel is supported by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in the investigation of numerous studies dealing with Asthma. In 2006, Boston Magazine named him one of
Boston’s best pulmonary doctors. He is a Principal Investigator of the NIH Asthma Clinical Research Network and is a Principal Investigator on the NIH Severe Asthma Research Program. He has completed over 50 studies on asthma.

Michael Wechsler, M.D., MMSc.
Elliot Israel Associate Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School And Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Michael Wechsler obtained his MD from McGill University School of Medicine in 1993, and a Masters of Medical Science from Harvard Medical School in 2002. Dr. Wechsler is an associate physician in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as the Associate Director of the Asthma Research Center. Dr. Wechsler has been involved with numerous research projects focused on both asthma and Churg Strauss Syndrome, and is a member of the Steering Committee at the NIH’s Asthma Clinical Research Network.

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