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Managing childhood asthma in primary care
Nursing in Practice Asthma continues to be the most common long-term illness affecting children with one-in-11 children (below 18 years of age) having the condition.1 On average there are three children in each classroom with asthma and a child is admitted every 20 … |
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Nursing Times |
Yoga may improve symptoms for asthma patients
Nursing Times The researchers found some moderate quality evidence from five studies that yoga exercise reduced the impact of asthma on people's quality of life. However, evidence about yoga's impact on lung function was more uncertain because the results varied. |
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Union Springs Herald |
Auburn nursing students teach about asthma
Union Springs Herald It was a hot Tuesday, June 16, when four Auburn University students were seen in Union Springs enlightening people about asthma to anyone who would stop by. They had a display set up in front of Main Drug Store and they selected this site for its … |
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Nursing Times |
Asthma care to be subject of national clinical review
Nursing Times The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has announced that NHS England will conduct national clinical audits into four conditions – asthma, psychosis, anxiety and depression, and epilepsy. There will also be a feasibility study on the … |
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College of Nursing holds free twice-monthly asthma clinic
easttennessean.com (subscription) ETSU's College of Nursing will be holding a twice-monthly educational clinic for those with respiratory issues stemming from the chronic lung disease known as asthma. The clinic will be held on the second and last Friday of every month at the Johnson … |
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Belfast Telegraph |
Avoidable asthma deaths: national audit results
Nursing Times The aim of the review was to build on previous confidential enquires into asthma deaths that have taken place around the UK to provide a robust body of evidence to help understand how these events arise and how they might be avoided in the future. More than a million people suffering from asthma are missing out on key yearly … Concern over people with asthma missing key medicine checks Asthma patients 'risk lives' by skipping annual checks |
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Gloucestershire Echo |
NICE backs FeNO devices for asthma diagnosis
Nursing Times It has recommended three devices – NIOX MINO, NIOX VERO and NObreath – to measure the levels of fractional-exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) a patient is breathing out that are indicative of inflammation associated with asthma. The institute's guidance … Asthma sufferers recommended breath test pioneered in Gloucestershire Search for jobs in the North East |
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Does a high-fibre diet help relieve asthma?
Nursing Times This headline is based on a mouse study that looked at the role that different types of dietary fibre play in the gut and its effect on allergic airway inflammation. Allergic airway inflammation – which happens in conditions such as asthma – is where … |
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New severe asthma guidelines issued
Nursing Times The guidelines explain severe asthma as “asthma which requires treatment with high dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) plus a second controller (LABA or long-acting ?2 agonists, leukotriene modifier, theophylline or systemic corticosteroids) to prevent … |
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Link between Calpol and asthma 'not proven'
Nursing Times Babies given Calpol just once a month “are five times as likely to develop asthma”, the Daily Mail reports. The headline was prompted by a study that suggested Spanish babies given paracetamol during their first year of life had an increased risk of … |
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