Acupuncture, a 5,000-year-old Chinese medical practice, is proving to be one way for some asthma patients to manage their symptoms without over-paying. In a study conducted by the University Hospital of Vienna, over 70 percent of patients with long...
Allergies: An allergy is an immune system problem to a substance (allergen) that is normally harmless. An allergen can be inhaled, swallowed, or come in contact with the skin.
There has been a huge increase in asthma in Western countries since the early 1960s. Asthma currently kills nearly 2000 people a year in England and Wales yet in 1929, Conybeare's Textbook of Medi ...
Q:I read an article last week about the Russian Buteyko Breathing Reconditioning Technique now undergoing clinical trials in Australia. ...
Children who eschew many of the staples of modern medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics, are less likely to develop atopic allergies, according to new Swedish research. ...
Your article entitled ‘Did steroids cause asthma?’ (WDDTY vol 14 no 6) was very interesting. Your response - that the patient’s 'asthma attack' was likely to have been an anaphylactic reaction to steroids
There's a wind of change in asthma treatment, or certainly as far as the marketing men are concerned. They've been sharpening their pencils to tell doctors about Seretide, a new asthma inhaler des ...
Both my daughter and son were born with a form of bronchial asthma which has caused a weakness in the lungs which renders them lacking in energy and sometimes depressed. I have tried many natural ...
Air pollution could be a major cause of respiratory disease, including asthma in children. This finding, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is the latest in a growing list of re ...
Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumours have come to light. ... ...
