People with Asthma Get the Green Light for Exercise
Many people with asthma report avoiding exercise because they’re afraid it could trigger symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing or a full-blown asthma attack, said review author Kristin V. Carson. These fears might be encouraged from misreading their symptoms, their family’s beliefs about exercise and asthma, or even from their physicians...
Read full article at newswise.com
Health Nuts Media and the Big Bad Wolf Teach Kids about Asthma During Asthma Awareness Month
Los Angeles, CA – May 18, 2012; In recognition of Asthma Awareness Month, Health Nuts Media (healthnutsmedia.com) has launched an animated asthma education series titled Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale. The seven-episode cartoon is already helping national healthcare insurance plans, health literacy partners, and local community organizations teach kids about asthma...
Read full article at webwire.com
New procedure helping asthma patients breathe easier
Durham, N.C. — Most people take breathing for granted, but for people with asthma, wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath are all scary symptoms that can result in trips to the hospital...
Read full article at wral.com
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
New procedure offers hope to asthma patients
DALLAS – More than 300 million people worldwide are affected by asthma, but a North Texas hospital is the first to try a ground-breaking procedure that offers long-term relief...
Full news here: wfaa.com
As Illinois asthma rate continues to rise, expert says more funding needed for education
As the prevalence of asthma increases in Illinois to 5 percent higher than the national average, an expert said that more funding and education is needed to help those affected by the chronic condition...
Full news here: news.medill.northwestern.edu
Allowing Inhalers for Students with Asthma
Saugerties, NY — (Albany, N.Y) – Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz (Brooklyn, 51st AD) is pleased that his legislation, A.935, passed the Assembly on May 15. 2012, and was delivered to the Senate. Bill A.935 allows students with respiratory illness, such as asthma, to carry a personal inhaler to school, in case of emergency. This legislation also requires school nurse to have inhalers available for those in need during emergency situation...
Full news here: poststarnews.com
DALLAS – More than 300 million people worldwide are affected by asthma, but a North Texas hospital is the first to try a ground-breaking procedure that offers long-term relief...
Full news here: wfaa.com
As Illinois asthma rate continues to rise, expert says more funding needed for education
As the prevalence of asthma increases in Illinois to 5 percent higher than the national average, an expert said that more funding and education is needed to help those affected by the chronic condition...
Full news here: news.medill.northwestern.edu
Allowing Inhalers for Students with Asthma
Saugerties, NY — (Albany, N.Y) – Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz (Brooklyn, 51st AD) is pleased that his legislation, A.935, passed the Assembly on May 15. 2012, and was delivered to the Senate. Bill A.935 allows students with respiratory illness, such as asthma, to carry a personal inhaler to school, in case of emergency. This legislation also requires school nurse to have inhalers available for those in need during emergency situation...
Full news here: poststarnews.com
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Asthma rate at record high; clean Olympic air helped hearts
Asthma count: The share of the U.S. population with asthma has reached the highest level ever, 8.4% in 2010, up from 7.3% in 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. While deaths are dropping, the impact is great: . "It is the most common reason for children to miss school, and an important cause of missed work in adults," one expert tells HealthDay. "The costs for medical care, lost work and school, and premature deaths are staggering."...
Continue reading at: yourlife.usatoday.com
Daily Checkup: The nation’s surge in asthma cases is linked to rise in obesity
The specialist:
The director of the adult asthma program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Gwen Skloot is a pulmonologist who has spent the past two decades studying the mechanisms of asthma. She specializes in caring for patients with difficult-to-treat asthma...
Continue reading at: nydailynews.com
Asthma Summit Highlights Regional Problems
Pollution and high obesity rates help to make Pittsburgh fourth highest in the nation for asthma rates, according to experts at an asthma summit on the North Side on Wednesday...
Continue reading at: essentialpublicradio.org
Asthma count: The share of the U.S. population with asthma has reached the highest level ever, 8.4% in 2010, up from 7.3% in 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. While deaths are dropping, the impact is great: . "It is the most common reason for children to miss school, and an important cause of missed work in adults," one expert tells HealthDay. "The costs for medical care, lost work and school, and premature deaths are staggering."...
Continue reading at: yourlife.usatoday.com
Daily Checkup: The nation’s surge in asthma cases is linked to rise in obesity
The specialist:
The director of the adult asthma program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Gwen Skloot is a pulmonologist who has spent the past two decades studying the mechanisms of asthma. She specializes in caring for patients with difficult-to-treat asthma...
Continue reading at: nydailynews.com
Asthma Summit Highlights Regional Problems
Pollution and high obesity rates help to make Pittsburgh fourth highest in the nation for asthma rates, according to experts at an asthma summit on the North Side on Wednesday...
Continue reading at: essentialpublicradio.org
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Home Test Kit Helps Identify Asthma Triggers
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors. For those suffering from asthma this makes it all the more important that the air they breathe in their homes, offices and schools is free of elevated levels of known asthma triggers...
Read full story at webwire.com
Inhaled Steroids Lead to Big Drop in Asthma Deaths at Texas Hospital: Study
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Patient education and medication compliance contributed to a 74 percent drop in the number of patients with life-threatening asthma admitted to the intensive care unit at University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, researchers report...
Read full story at health.usnews.com
Asthma Cases Continue to Rise in U.S., Affecting Millions
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma continues to take its toll on Americans, with almost 19 million adults (8.2 percent) suffering from the disorder in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Read full story at health.usnews.com
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors. For those suffering from asthma this makes it all the more important that the air they breathe in their homes, offices and schools is free of elevated levels of known asthma triggers...
Read full story at webwire.com
Inhaled Steroids Lead to Big Drop in Asthma Deaths at Texas Hospital: Study
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Patient education and medication compliance contributed to a 74 percent drop in the number of patients with life-threatening asthma admitted to the intensive care unit at University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, researchers report...
Read full story at health.usnews.com
Asthma Cases Continue to Rise in U.S., Affecting Millions
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma continues to take its toll on Americans, with almost 19 million adults (8.2 percent) suffering from the disorder in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Read full story at health.usnews.com
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
'1 in 5 has SAF servicemen asthma, but it's mild'
One in five servicemen in the Singapore Armed Forces has asthma, but his condition is usually mild - mild enough for most of those with the disease to be considered combat-fit...
Read more: straitstimes.com
Mommy Monday: Asthma
Lynchburg, VA - Asthma is one of the most chronic diseases our kids face and there has been a huge spike in the number of children diagnosed...
Read more: wset.com
ICU Stays for Worst Asthma Cases Dropped Significantly Over Last 30 Years
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%. The study, by University of Texas (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...
Read more: rtmagazine.com
One in five servicemen in the Singapore Armed Forces has asthma, but his condition is usually mild - mild enough for most of those with the disease to be considered combat-fit...
Read more: straitstimes.com
Mommy Monday: Asthma
Lynchburg, VA - Asthma is one of the most chronic diseases our kids face and there has been a huge spike in the number of children diagnosed...
Read more: wset.com
ICU Stays for Worst Asthma Cases Dropped Significantly Over Last 30 Years
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%. The study, by University of Texas (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...
Read more: rtmagazine.com
Monday, May 14, 2012
House Cleaning Tips To Mark World Asthma Day
1 May was World Asthma Day and with 5.4 million people affected by asthma in the UK, HomeServe has compiled some useful spring cleaning tips on how to improve your home environment for asthma sufferers...
Source: prweb.com
Air pollution raising asthma
Hyderabad—The increasing air pollution and dust put the number of allergic asthmatic patients high in urban populace of Hyderabad and there is the need of formation of effective strategy to control air pollution. Eminent Pulmonologist and Head of the Department of Pulmonology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro Dr. Rashid Ahmed Khan expressed his concern over increasing allergic asthmatic disease in Hyderabad in an interview with this scribe on Friday. He said that smoke of increasing number of new and unfit vehicles as well as dust, rising because of development work, were the main reasons for increasing allergic asthmatic among the residents of urban localities...
Source: pakobserver.net
Prevea offers new asthma treatment
ASHWAUBENON — Prevea Health is offering a new FDA-approved procedure for asthma patients known as bronchial thermoplasty...
Source: greenbaypressgazette.com
1 May was World Asthma Day and with 5.4 million people affected by asthma in the UK, HomeServe has compiled some useful spring cleaning tips on how to improve your home environment for asthma sufferers...
Source: prweb.com
Air pollution raising asthma
Hyderabad—The increasing air pollution and dust put the number of allergic asthmatic patients high in urban populace of Hyderabad and there is the need of formation of effective strategy to control air pollution. Eminent Pulmonologist and Head of the Department of Pulmonology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro Dr. Rashid Ahmed Khan expressed his concern over increasing allergic asthmatic disease in Hyderabad in an interview with this scribe on Friday. He said that smoke of increasing number of new and unfit vehicles as well as dust, rising because of development work, were the main reasons for increasing allergic asthmatic among the residents of urban localities...
Source: pakobserver.net
Prevea offers new asthma treatment
ASHWAUBENON — Prevea Health is offering a new FDA-approved procedure for asthma patients known as bronchial thermoplasty...
Source: greenbaypressgazette.com
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Carol Marin: Mayor gets an ‘A’ for asthma fight
Whatever overall grade you choose to give Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first year in office, when it comes to fighting childhood asthma and air pollution, I’d argue he deserves an “A.”...
Read full article at suntimes.com
Prenatal smoking tied to worse asthma in kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have a tougher time controlling their asthma than other kids do, a new study suggests...
Read full article at chicagotribune.com
5 surprising warm weather allergy, asthma triggers
While summer means barbeques, festivals and other outdoor activities, the millions of Americans that suffer allergic reactions to grass pollens might want to run for cover. But according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), seasonal allergies can also affect those without pollen sensitivities due to unexpected summer staples such as certain fruits and vegetables, campfires or changes in the weather...
Read full article at stlamerican.com
Whatever overall grade you choose to give Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first year in office, when it comes to fighting childhood asthma and air pollution, I’d argue he deserves an “A.”...
Read full article at suntimes.com
Prenatal smoking tied to worse asthma in kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have a tougher time controlling their asthma than other kids do, a new study suggests...
Read full article at chicagotribune.com
5 surprising warm weather allergy, asthma triggers
While summer means barbeques, festivals and other outdoor activities, the millions of Americans that suffer allergic reactions to grass pollens might want to run for cover. But according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), seasonal allergies can also affect those without pollen sensitivities due to unexpected summer staples such as certain fruits and vegetables, campfires or changes in the weather...
Read full article at stlamerican.com
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