SaveHealth reports seven asthma medication categories, including inhaled corticosteroids and biologics, helping manage ...

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A peak flow meter is a simple, small, hand-held tool that can help you maintain control of asthma by providing a measurement of how well air moves out of the lungs. After blowing into the device, the ...

Dr. Stephen Wasserman answers the question: 'What Is A Rescue Medicine?' — -- Question: What is a rescue medicine and when is it used for asthma? Answer: A rescue medicine is a medicine used in ...

NEW YORK - "How many people in this room know someone or are someone who has asthma?" Dariella Rodriguez asked a group of students at an evening event at The Point CDC in Hunts Point. It's common to ...

New legislation proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) would help alleviate a major problem in Bronx schools - asthma in children. The bill would provide millions to arm schools with ...

As pediatricians who take care of children in the inpatient, emergency, and primary care settings, we are alarmed by the recent trend of families having to go without basic medications to control ...

In 2017, an expert commission organized by the Lancet examined the current state of asthma care. That commission identified poor medication adherence as one of the principal barriers standing between ...

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says in the first week of May emergency room visits for allergies and asthma has more than doubled in the Bronx and city. With the increase in allergies, ...

In the grim emergency wards of hospitals throughout the Bronx and Manhattan, Kimberly Negron has spent countless agonizing hours with her two asthmatic kids, 4-year-old Ashly and 9-year-old Francisco.