BRMC offers procedure to decrease symptoms of asthma, improve quality of life

Two Baxter Regional Medical Center pulmonologists — Dr. Rebecca Martin and Dr. Brian Malte — are providing a fairly new procedure, bronchial thermoplasty, to diminish the symptoms of asthma patients while also improving their quality of life.
Bronchial thermoplasty is a procedure for severe, persistent asthma. Severe and persistent asthma, the last stage of the disease, is considered a health situation in which a health provider has given every medicine to a patient but still cannot control the illness.
The patients would undergo the three-month procedure in three stages.....

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Siblings die minutes apart after suffering apparent asthma attacks

An asthmatic 2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother died minutes apart Monday after they were found gasping for air in their Bronx home — and police sources said both tots had “marks” on their necks.
The children’s deaths are now being investigated by police as well as city child-welfare workers given the “red flags,” sources told The Post.
The family has no history with the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, according to an agency source. A police source added that the neck marks could have been a result of CPR.....

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ASTHMA VERSUS TECH!

Asthma can be an absolutely debilitating condition if not properly monitored. Unfortunately, there’s never been an easy way to get to the root of the problem and it only makes things more difficult that each sufferer is affected differently and for varying reasons. Until now! Introducing, Zero Asthma.
This wearable tech not only presents an entirely new way of keeping an inhaler handy, it also pairs wirelessly with the user’s smartphone where an app tracks medicine levels in real time and notifies when refills are due.....

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