When your kid can’t breathe, nothing else matters. Being the parent of a child diagnosed with asthma is like going on a journey with little idea where you are headed. Asthma is a disease that changes across the course of a day, a year, and a lifetime. Your child’s symptoms may get better in the...Continue reading
Excessive humidity inside your home makes you feel uncomfortable. While minor discomfort is not a serious concern, there are some serious health issues that can develop when you spend a lot of time in an area where the humidity is consistently high. It’s important that you recognize the potential danger to your health and that...Continue reading
Summertime for many means outdoor fun, such as pools and campfires. But for the 24 million Americans who have asthma, like me, things like chlorine and smoke can trigger dangerous asthma attacks. I’ve suffered from asthma all my life. I always thought I was managing as best I could. I took the medicine the doctors...Continue reading
First it was the coughing, and then the congestion. Just a cold, I thought. No big deal. So off I went to work. The next morning, my body temperature had soared to 103.8. This was no cold – a visit to my doctor confirmed I had the flu. It got worse. A few days later,...
It often seems that there’s a new breakthrough in medicine almost every day—sometimes even more often. Here are several discoveries that, while in the early stages, are showing a lot of promise. We’ll keep you up to date on how these discoveries develop.