Prison system killed Bronx dad who suffered from asthma, enlarged heart … – New York Daily News


New York Daily News

Prison system killed Bronx dad who suffered from asthma, enlarged heart
New York Daily News
Brandon Jackson, who weighed 270 pounds and suffered from asthma and an enlarged heart, arrived there two weeks earlier on a felony drug charge. On the day his mother visited, the Bronx man was wheezing. His skin was clammy. And he immediately started

View full post on asthma – Google News

Fuzzy Rule-Based Expert System for Assessment Severity of Asthma.

Related Articles

Fuzzy Rule-Based Expert System for Assessment Severity of Asthma.

J Med Syst. 2010 Dec 3;

Authors: Zolnoori M, Zarandi MH, Moin M, Teimorian S

Prescription medicine for asthma at primary stages is based on asthma severity level. Despite major progress in discovering various variables affecting asthma severity levels, disregarding some of these variables by physicians, variables’ inherent uncertainty, and assigning patients to limited categories of decision making are the major causes of underestimating asthma severity, and as a result low quality of life in asthmatic patients. In this paper, we provide a solution of intelligence fuzzy system for this problem. Inputs of this system are organized in five modules of respiratory symptoms, bronchial obstruction, asthma instability, quality of life, and asthma severity. Output of this system is degree of asthma severity in score (0-10). Evaluating performance of this system by 28 asthmatic patients reinforces that the system’s results not only correspond with evaluations of physicians, but represent the slight differences of asthmatic patients placed in specific category introduced by guidelines.

PMID: 21128097 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

View full post on pubmed: asthma

New system to help asthmatics gets approval by FDA

New system to help asthmatics gets approval by FDA
People with severe asthma are getting a radically different treatment option: A way to snake a wire inside their lungs and melt off some of the tissue that squeezes their airways shut.But the Alair system, rolling out this month, offers the first method of altering spasm-prone airways.”It does seem to improve your ability to live with your asthma,” says Dr. Michael Silver of Chicago’s Rush …

Read more on Chicago Sun-Times

Allergic conditions that result from hyper reactive immune system may lower cancer risk: Study

Allergic conditions that result from hyper reactive immune system may lower cancer risk: Study
If you have asthma or eczema, your hyper reactive immune system may lower your risk of some of the most common types of cancer, according to a study published this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Read more on News-Medical-Net