American Lung Association hosts Asthma Camp

The American Lung Association in Delaware hosted its annual Asthma Camp July 9 to 13 at St. Jude the Apostle Church in Lewes to educate young people with asthma on how to manage their disease...

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Innovative pediatric asthma telemedicine device being tested at Children’s of Minnesota

Last year, industrial design firm Worrell Inc. stunned the world and itself when it imagined a futuristic telemedicine device.
It created a video showing a mother using a laptop-like device, both a medical kit and a communications tool, to connect with a nurse who promised to monitor a sick child overnight much to the mother’s relief...

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Immune suppressants relieve severe asthma

Five to 10 percent of patients with asthma have disease that can be classified as severe, meaning it is difficult to treat and often causes life-threatening breathing problems. Typically these patients are treated with the aim of reducing lung inflammation, but treatment often leads to devastating consequences due to steroid side effects...

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