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Monthly Features

Are you taking your medication correctly?
October, 2007
Are you taking your asthma medication correctly? According to a new study presented at the American College of Chest Physicians 2007 Symposium, 1 out ...
Updated NHLBI Asthma Guidelines
September, 2007
In August, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) issued the first comprehensive update in a decade of clinical guidelines for t ...
Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy Increases Risk of Childhood Asthma
January, 2004
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy greatly increase their child's risk of developing asthma in the first seven years of life, according to a study of ...
EPA's America's Children & the Environment Website
December, 2003
http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children If you're interested in children and asthma, you may want to visit this website, based on the America's Chil ...
Canadian Asthma Meds Recalled
November, 2003
As a precaution, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting U.S. residents to the recent recall of certain GlaxoSmithKline "Diskus" medicines ...
Got Asthma? Get a Flu Shot!
October, 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging people with asthma, both children and adults, to be vaccinated against the flu. Flu sh ...
New Report on Childhood Asthma & Environments
September, 2003
New Report on Childhood Asthma & Environments Asthma is a major public health problem of increasing importance to state health and environmental ...
Labeling Changes for Drug Products Containing Salmeterol
August, 2003
The Food and Drug Administration has announced the addition of new safety information and warnings to the labeling for drug products that contain salm ...
Researchers Find 291 Genes Associated with Asthma
June, 2003
In one of the most significant breakthroughs in allergic diseases research in recent years, an international group of scientists led by researchers a ...
FDA Clears New Test to Monitor Asthma
May, 2003
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing a first-of-a-kind, non-invasive test system to measure the concentration of nitric ox ...

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