How adult asthmatics can cope during allergy season

Allergies and asthma can trigger a spring of itching, sneezing and wheezing for millions of Americans.
About 26 million Americans suffer from asthma, which is a chronic or long-term lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways, causing coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing and tightness of the chest, according to the National Institutes of Health......

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Now, asthma inhaler that administers right dose

London: A 22-year-old college student in the UK, who suffered from acute asthma since he was a child, has developed an inhaler which signals whether a user has taken the right dosage.
Josh Averill, an undergraduate in product design at Nottingham Trent University in UK, claims his invention has the potential to alleviate people`s symptoms by helping ensure they administer the medicine correctly......

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Severe Asthma: Clinical Conundrum

Severe asthma—a heterogeneous disease that requires treatment with high-dose inhaled corticosteroids—affects 5% to 10% of asthma patients. The condition is costly to treat, consuming more than its share of health care resources. A comprehensive review of a condition’s pathology and current and investigational treatments can frequently help pharmacists deal with difficult cases, and just such a review of uncontrolled severe asthma appears in the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Investigational Allergology & Clinical Immunology.....

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