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Womans Day (blog) |
Millions of People Living with Asthma Are in Danger for This Reason
Womans Day (blog) If you're an asthma sufferer and regularly use an inhaler, there's a good chance that you've been administering your own medication incorrectly. A culmination of previous research has surfaced and was put together in a report by the British Lung … Millions of asthmatics are 'putting their lives in danger' by not using … |
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The Guardian |
Doctors putting 100000 UK asthma sufferers in danger, says charity
The Guardian An estimated 22,000 people, including 2,000 children, are in danger because they are using long-acting reliever inhalers on their own rather than with a steroid preventer as they should be, according to a report by Asthma UK. That poses a danger … Thousands of asthma-sufferers at risk of potentially life-threatening attacks … Thousands of patients 'at risk from asthma prescribing errors' Unsafe asthma prescribing 'must end' |
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Kids with asthma or wheezing face most danger from respiratory virus
NorthJersey.com Despite the vast amount of attention that's been focused on the danger enterovirus-68 poses to children, the reality is that for most kids, the respiratory virus wouldn't be much tougher than a bout with the common cold. About a dozen cases of the … |
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CBS Local |
Virus poses particular danger to kids with asthma; cases in 12 states
Los Angeles Times A rare virus that threatens respiratory systems has sickened hundreds children in Kansas City, Mo., and and Chicago and could be responsible for far more cases in about a dozen states, national health officials said Monday. The virus, known an … Symptom of Respiratory Illness Infecting Midwest Children is Asthma Attacks 10 states report outbreak of respiratory illness in kids Rare, potentially deadly 'Enterovirus' hits thousands of kids across 10 states |
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Staying Out of Asthma's Danger Zone
dailyRx (dailyRx News) Asthma has warning signs that can be fairly obvious, giving people with asthma time to take positive action. Not every asthma patient, however, knows how to ward off a crisis. An organization of allergists and asthma researchers has … |
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Goal: Alert Houston children with asthma about air danger
HealthCanal.com Rice University researchers, with support from Houston Endowment, will develop a system to warn schoolchildren who have asthma about changing air quality up to three days in advance of increased airborne risks. Rice statistician Katherine Ensor, Rice … |
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1990s trial gave early danger signs for asthma drugs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The troubled history of asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists goes back to the 1990s when a large clinical trial in Great Britain of the GlaxoSmithKline drug Serevent produced disturbing results. In that 16-week trial of 25,000 asthma … |
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High temperatures may put people with asthma in danger
WLFI.com Dealing with the heat may be difficult for people with asthma. |
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Desso Highlights the Danger of Particulate Matter at World Asthma Day 2012
MarketWatch (press release) On 1 May 2012 – World Asthma Day – the European carpet manufacturer Desso will be highlighting a global problem: the poor indoor air quality in many homes and public buildings. An excessive quantity of dust particles and particulate matter in indoor … |
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Asthma danger time
Blacktown Sun Experts are warning more than two million people in Australia who have asthma about an increase in allergy triggers because of unseasonal weather. NSW has been had a prolonged grass growing season after the break of the drought, resulting in an … |
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