Asthma Symptoms Impairs Sleep in Children
Nutrition and Asthma
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…
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…
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 Study: Asthma Sufferers Trapped with Disease
The course of asthma activity: A population study A recent asthma activity population study suggests that once you’ve been diagnosed with asthma, you’re trapped with the disease for life. According to published reports in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical…
Asthma Study: Amish Farm Kids Have Lower Asthma, Allergy Risk
A recent study conducted by Dr. Mark Holbreich, an allergist reflect that children growing up in the Amish culture in Switzerland have significantly less asthma and allergies than Swiss children who didn’t grow up on a farm according to publish…
Childhood Asthma Treatment: Not One-Size-Fits-All
Study helps guide treatment choices A new study has found the addition of long-acting beta-agonist therapy to be the most effective of three step-up, or supplemental, treatments for children whose asthma is not well controlled on low doses of inhaled…