The Prairie Doc Perspective: Attacking asthma

I remember my first asthma-attack. My family was traveling, before the interstate was built, in our old Chevy, down two-lane highways from DeSmet, South Dakota to the Ozarks of Missouri to visit relatives at Christmas, and my sister and I were exploring under the seats in the back, stirring up dust as we were discovering lost coins and toys. Not long after, I could not get my breath......

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Asthma sufferers finding relief through new procedure

CHARLOTTE -- A cutting-edge procedure for patients suffering with asthma is taking off across North Carolina.
It is called bronchial thermoplasty and is now offered for the first time at CMC-University in Charlotte. In a series of three surgeries, it heats the airways in the lungs and shrinks the muscle tissue that constricts during an asthma attack.....

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Predictors of seasonal influenza vaccination in chronic asthma

Background
Guidelines advise annual influenza vaccination in chronic asthma. The aim of this study was to determine uptake of the influenza vaccine in a group of patients (n = 146) with moderate to severe chronic asthma and establish the main predictors of vaccination.....

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