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Medications

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on questions about different types of medications. The author answers questions ab...

Asthma Management

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the views in existing studies on the best approaches for asthma care. There are ...

Asthma and Epidemiological Research

This research paper describes the issue of pediatric asthma and how this problem may be addressed by epidemiological research stud...

Acute Asthma: A Case Report

Introduction Dawn Lights, a 21-year-old university student with early onset moderately persistent asthma reported that she was re...

Pharmacological Overview of Asthma

the attack from happening at all. This can be of immense relief to those accustomed to suffering from debilitating asthma attacks,...

Survey Asthmatic Children

(HealthyPeople.gov, 2012)? All parents who have children with asthma will be invited to a meeting at the school. At that meeting,...

Using Christoffe’s Framework Prevent Asthma

asthma in that geographic area. The advocate would conduct research and identify gaps in the research. They may even participate i...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Overview of Pediatric Asthma

would be inhaled corticosteroids. These work very well on pre-school and school aged children alike and the negative side effects...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant Neighborhood and the Respiratory Impact of Poverty on Children

condition. Other mitigating factors in regard to asthma include psychosocial variables, and possibly environmental exposure to a...

Overview of Pediatric Asthma and Its Issues

Introduction Pediatric asthma is in effect similar in its epidemiology, diagnoses, and treatment to adult forms of...

UK and Occupational Asthma

(Haz-Map, 2003). There are two general categories that cause occupational asthma: 1. Low-molecular weight compounds, which are c...

Los Angeles Area Health Policy Changes and Nursing

international trade, has also increased pollution from diesel engines (Bostwick, 2004). A 20 parts-per-billion increase in ozone l...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

Different Literature Presentations of Asthma

and the effect on the occupational arena. Both articles, however, emphasize that asthma takes a tremendous economic toll in the U...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Arguing for Aggressive Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment

1996). It is the root cause of epidemics of bronchiolitis and pneumonia and is a serious threat to life of infants younger than o...

Asthma Management and Drug Therapies

reduce hyper responsiveness and inflammatory changes in the airways. Patients with daily symptoms tend to benefit more from regula...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Literature Review of Emotions and Asthma

subjected to stressful experiences, such as performing "mental arithmetic tasks, watching emotionally charged films and listening ...

Asthma Survey Results

this may not improve sleep quality (Mulcahy, 2004). One study has indicated that treatment with melatonin may aid sleep (Barry, 20...

Benefits of Yoga for Asthma Sufferers

typical medical interventions in treating illness. Yoga can be can be performed in absence of health care professionals, complex e...

Asthma and the Human Respiratory System

Many diverse conditions can affect the lung. Asthma is one such condition. Unfortunately, asthma is too often dismissed as an in...

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Otitis Media and Asthma

should include redness, swelling, and the presence of pussy (clouded, yellow) fluid behind the drum (CPS, 2004). In children o...

The Respiratory System and Asthma

reality of asthma. In the first article to be examined the topic covers the respiratory system itself. The author notes that, "Ea...

Asthma and How to Live With It

through counseling or psychotherapy has been found to be effective in reducing the asthmatic symptoms. However, for the m...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

Review Journal Articles About NYC Department Of Education

health of the children. This is absolutely tragic. Asthma is obviously a problem of significant concern in this area but physicia...