Health and health care is all about outcomes. As a nurse, I was trained to measure the effectiveness of the care I provided to my patients by their clinical outcomes. For example, when I provided wound care to one of my home care patients every day for two weeks, I was looking for the wound to heal within a reasonable time and without getting infected. That was the clinical outcome.
As a patient with asthma, though, my perspective on outcomes is slightly different. When I think of outcomes...
American's love Big Macs, Whoppers, French fries, onion rings and deep fried chicken. These are convenient foods that are simply... Read more »
Asthma rates started to decline in the 1970s, yet between 1980 and 1995 they increased 75 percent. Rates have continued to climb since... Read more »
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Many articles have identified the disproportionate level of severe and fatal asthma in subgroups of people in this country (such as African... Read more »
If you are a woman with asthma and you are thinking of getting pregnant or if you have just learned that you are expecting a baby, try not... Read more »
Eating a fatty meal can increase airway inflammation and bring on an asthma attack, new research suggests. A study of 40 asthmatics found that eating... Read more »
Researchers in Australia may have found out why obese people are more likely to have asthma. The culprit may be a protein in fat cells called aP2... Read more »
Women who have a waist circumference of 35 inches or more are more likely to develop asthma--even if their weight is normal, researchers say. Data... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) Here's another reason to maintain a healthy weight: obese women are more likely to end up with children who have asthma. This... Read more »
New guidelines published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine stress the importance of managing asthma symptoms during pregnancy. Dr.... Read more »
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