Friday, August 29, 2014

Make your smartphone work for your kids’ health—monitor their asthma with these apps

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. It generally starts in childhood. About 25 million people in the U.S. are known to have asthma, and about 7 million are children, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.....

Read more here: umsystem.edu

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Is This Really Asthma?

Have you ever had an experience that made you feel like you chose the right profession? One of those times where you felt you made the difference that changed the course of a patient's care?......

Read more here: community.advanceweb.com

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Schools to be allowed to carry emergency asthma inhalers

Schools are to be allowed to hold emergency stocks of asthma inhalers containing salbutamol. The Department of Health says that responses to its consultation were "overwhelmingly supportive" of changing the law to allow schools to hold emergency salbutamol inhalers.....

Read more here: onmedica.com

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