1.   And last night SmithKline heard that its Tagamet asthma drug failed to get full approval in the US.

2.   Analysts said the U.S. rejection of a promising Zeneca Group Plc asthma drug could delay any product launch for at least a year.

3.   Analysts said the U.S. rejection of a promising Zeneca Group Plc asthma drug would likely only delay any product launch, not stop it.

4.   Asmanex, a promising new asthma drug, could be approved by the FDA this year.

5.   Accolate, also known as zafirlukast, won FDA approval in September and is the first in a new class of nonsteroidal asthma drugs.

6.   But investors seem to have discounted the risk of FDA rejection and focused instead on the potential size of the market, should the asthma drug win approval.

7.   Certain medications, including lithium and some asthma drugs, and radiation treatments for cancers that occur in the neck area can also result in a thyroid insufficiency.

8.   Doctors had implanted a portocath in her chest so that she could receive frequent injections of an experimental asthma drug.

9.   Fisons products include the asthma drugs Intal and Tildade.

10.   Five other asthma drugs fall into a third group, consisting of one-of-a-kind medications.