Wake Forest Baptist: Tips On Dealing With Summertime Asthma

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- When summertime rolls around, most of us are thinking about relaxing getaways and soaking up the sun by the pool. But if you suffer from asthma, those long days with temperatures rising above 90 degrees can trigger possible attacks.....

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Taking care of asthma: How to spot an attack and how to help

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 25 million Americans suffer from asthma –about one in every 12 people. Of those, roughly 7 million are children. The number of those affected by the disease increases every year, resulting in significant healthcare expenses. In 2007, asthma cost the U.S. about $56 billion in medical costs, missed school and work days, and early deaths.....

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Watching, Waiting, Anticipating: how will NICE deliver on the new asthma guidelines?

While the asthma community has not been the first this year to challenge the validity and practicality of NICE guidelines, their reaction in January to the proposed guideline on diagnosis and monitoring of asthma characterises the struggles facing NICE – how to marry the realities of service pressures with what patients should expect as best practice.  Yet, with the recent NICE Triennial Review skirting over such fundamental questions, the answer of whether NICE is becoming increasingly out of touch or, indeed, the only body left truly championing best practice, remains to be seen.....

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