What Is Homeostasis?
Homeostasis and Asthma

What is homeostasis?  Like most medical terms, there’s a dictionary definition, but that’s not always very helpful in understanding what a concept actually looks like and how it operates in the body.  Biology dictionaries define homeostasis as “the tendency of an organism or a cell to regulate its internal conditions, usually by a system of feedback controls, so as to stabilize health and functioning, regardless of the outside changing conditions.”  In terms of asthma, homeostasis refers to your bodies respiratory system functioning correctly without increases in inflammation or other parts of the pathophysiology of asthma negatively impacting you.....

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Natural Remedies For Asthma
Have You Tried Any of These Natural Remedies For Asthma?

As most asthma sufferers know, there’s a huge cost associated with managing asthma symptoms with prescription drugs and natural asthma remedies may help.  And while having a rescue inhaler on hand and relying on prescription drugs in case of emergency is absolutely essential to help assure that minor asthma symptoms don’t turn into major complications, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some great natural treatment options out there that can help asthma sufferers in addition to your controller medication.....

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Immunotherapy May Ward Off Fall Asthma Attacks in Predisposed Children

MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
Medical Research: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?.....

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