The Role of Nutrition and Nutritional Supplements in Asthma Nutrition and Nutritional Supplements in Asthma Interview with Nicholas Kenyon, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of California, Davis. We learn about: * Increased…
Improving Asthma Control in Patients of Hispanic & African Americans
Interview with Grace E. Hardie, PhD, RN, UCSF, SF State Associate Professor San Francisco State University Our understanding of how ethnicity influences how patients describe their asthma symptoms and how ethnicity impacts airway responsiveness is extremely limited. Ethnic influences on…
Innovations in Asthma Management
Interview with Michal Konstacky, MD at @Aerocrine Aerocrine, a medical technology company focused on improving the treatment of patients with inflamed airways by identifying nitric oxide (NO) as a marker of inflammation. Aerocrine has HQ in Sweeden. The founders of…
Asthma and Exercise Feasibility
Asthma and Exercise Feasibility: A Randomized Pilot Study Abstract Background Aerobic exercise appears to have clinical benefits for many asthmatics, yet a complete understanding of the mechanisms underlying these benefits has not been elucidated at this time. Purpose The objective…
Severe Asthma and COPD Readmissions and Exacerbations
If you or someone you know suffers from severe Asthma and or COPD then you owe it to yourself and to others to listen in on this interview with Chris Garvey FNP, MSN, MPA, FAACVPR Manager, Seton Pulmonary & Cardiac…
BPA Raises Risk for Childhood Asthma Study Finds
Children exposed to the plastics chemical bisphenol A had an elevated risk for asthma Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health are the first to report an association between early childhood…
High Risk Factors in Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome
High Risk Factors in Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome: Highly Prevalent But Grossly Underappreciated By Tinka Davi, World Asthma Foundation The statistics are staggering: Every four minutes someone dies of COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Every day nine people die from…
Asthma and Vaccine Research
Asthma Vaccine 4 to 5 years away says Researchers The vaccine developed in a model of healthy mice was then optimized in a mouse model of asthma. In this model the vaccine triggers production of specific antibodies and cellular responses…
Asthma Med Co-Payments Could Affect What Kids get their Asthma Medication Says Study
According to published reports by the Journal of the American Medical Association, health plans have implemented policies to restrain prescription medication spending by shifting costs toward patients. It is unknown how these policies have affected children with chronic illness. The…
Asthma and Mobile Monitoring Fails Value Muster
Findings published in the British Medical Journal show that patients who used mobile phones to monitor their asthma, did not improve control of the disease when compared to paper monitoring. It also found that the use of mobile phone monitoring…