This new 5-step plan aims to save more asthma patients' lives

A YORK Hospital consultant has played a key role in drawing up a national action plan to save asthma patients' lives.
John White, a consultant respiratory physician at York NHS Foundation Trust, has helped the British Thoracic Society and Asthma UK draw up the five-point care check list or 'bundle'.....

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Breathing Easy at Last, Dayton Woman Keeps Asthma in Check

A smiling Lisa Levan is walking and not wheezing.
The 48-year-old Dayton mom is enjoying her daughter’s high school band performances even during chilly days. These are activities Levan couldn’t consider just a year ago, but they are now becoming a way of life thanks to a procedure known as bronchial thermoplasty performed at University of Cincinnati Medical Center.....

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Asthma may raise abdominal aortic aneurysm risk

Asthma may raise the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Abdominal aortic aneurysm is the weakening of the main blood vessel in the body. It can cause sudden death if it ruptures. The study uncovered that asthma patients had a greater risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm.....

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