May Is Asthma Awareness Month

May is Asthma Awareness Month, encouraging Californians to learn more about the chronic respiratory disease and its triggers...

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Learn360, in Partnership with Health Nuts Media, Recognizes Asthma Awareness Month

WOODBURY, N.Y., May 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Learn360Awareness, an initiative from Learn360 designed to build awareness of specific topics and link supporting educational content to those topics, in partnership with Health Nuts Media, today announces the launch of its third initiative focusing on asthma...

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ICU stays for worst asthma drop 74 percent, review finds

SAN ANTONIO (May 10, 2012) — A review of 30 years of life-threatening asthma cases in a San Antonio intensive care unit found that annual ICU admissions for the condition have dropped 74 percent. The study, by UT Medicine San Antonio physicians who reviewed cases at University Hospital between 1980 and 2010, also showed intubation in the emergency department to help patients breathe did not result in longer hospital stays...

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