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New Heat Treatment Has Changed Lives For Some With Sever Asthma
OPB News Rady was diagnosed with chronic persistent asthma at the age of two. She underwent a series of three outpatient surgeries between Dec. 2012 and Feb. 2013 for a procedure known as bronchial thermoplasty. She says the procedure has changed her life, … |
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NPR (blog) |
New Heat Treatment Has Changed Lives For Some With Severe Asthma
NPR (blog) Rady has had asthma since she was a toddler. She tried to go away for college, but after a bad flare-up first semester she moved back home. She's now 28, but her lungs are like those of a 65–year-old. If something triggers her airways to twitch and … New Heat Treatment Has Changed Lives For Some With Sever Asthma |
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NPR (blog) |
New Heat Treatment Has Changed Lives For Some With Sever Asthma
NPR (blog) Rady has had asthma since she was a toddler. She tried to go away for college, but after a bad flare-up first semester she moved back home. She's now 28, but her lungs are like those of a 65–year-old. If something triggers her airways to twitch and … |
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Energy Collective |
A Singular Day for Clean Air: Safeguards for 45000 Lives Are Debated in Courts
Energy Collective When it comes to reducing the outdoor air pollution that triggers asthma, the state of Connecticut has done many things right: it requires tailpipe emissions checks for vehicles, has installed pollution controls on power plants, and is considering … |
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NICE's new asthma quality standard "could change millions of lives"
PharmaTimes Patient groups have welcomed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)'s new quality standard for asthma care, with Asthma UK stating that, if successful, it "could change millions of lives." The quality standard, which covers … New integrated approach to asthma care New asthma care 'could change millions of lives' |
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 RedOrbit |
Drugs That Limit Excess Mucus Could Save Lives
RedOrbit “There is good evidence that what kills people with severe COPD or asthma is mucus obstructing the airway,” says Michael J. Holtzman, MD, the Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. |
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Drugs Limiting Excess Mucus Could Save Lives
Patch.com “There is good evidence that what kills people with severe COPD or asthma is mucus obstructing the airway,” said Michael J. Holtzman, MD, the Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. |
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 Wired |
Asthmapping: Smart Inhalers Track Usage to Save Lives
Wired Asthma sucks. It's a chronic disease that can constrict your breathing to the point of killing you. There's medication to help you manage it, but getting the dosage and regime right means your doctor needs detailed information about your experience … |
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E-guide for asthma services could save lives
OnMedica An e-guide for the commissioners and providers of asthma services could help save lives and reduce the high cost of medication and emergency hospital admissions. The UK has the highest prevalence of asthma in the world and death rates from asthma are … |
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 WBUR |
Dirtier Lives May Be Just the Medicine We Need
Wall Street Journal But there's also a long list of modern illnesses that your great-grandparents barely knew: asthma, eczema, hay fever, food allergies, Crohn's disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis. The coincidence of the rise in these … Worms And Germs: Their Absence May Explain Ills From Allergies To Asthma |
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