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AANMA’s Director of Patient Advocacy, Sandra Fusco-Walker, testifed before the South Dakota Health and Human Services via phone this morning on Senate Bill 83, which would protect a student’s right to carry and self-administer their lifesaving asthma and anaphylaxis medications at school. Once the legislation passes, South Dakota would become
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The AANMA Store is now open for business! Our new online store brings you the best resources and products to help you manage symptoms, plus a vibrant selection of books and educational materials. Shop for holding chambers and nebulizers, peak flow meters, books, the AsthmaTracker(TM) daily symptom diary and our popular series of inhaler posters.
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Now there’s a simple, non-invasive exhaled breath test to help clarify if respiratory symptoms are due to allergic asthma and require inhaled corticosteroids, or if symptoms are caused by something else.
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AANMA members Caleb and Debbie Lucien of Pignon, Haiti, send the following relief efforts update (click to read the letter from Caleb). Last week, AANMA sent EpiPen auto-injectable epinephrine to Haiti. We’re working with Forest and Monaghan to send AeroChamber holding chambers in every size available, and we’re hoping to secure medications for respiratory patients. [...]
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Within hours of learning about the earthquake in Haiti, we began efforts to reach two of our AANMA members, Caleb and Debbie Lucien, who live in Pignon, Haiti – about 90 miles from Port-au-Prince. Caleb and Debbie know about asthma firsthand from when their children were very young, and still
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The flu is decidedly not the only terrible bug going around this season. Call it the crud if you will, but whatever this unnamed thing is – it’s terrible. Many of us who haven’t so much as wheezed or sneezed in ages are now coughing and hacking or giving breathing
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Garlic recipe: Boil whole heads of garlic for 8-10 minutes until fork tender. Slice in half. With half cloves facing down, fry in cast-iron pan with olive oil, salt and pepper til crisp, about 5
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The Energizer Bunny can’t compete with Sandra Fusco-Walker, AANMA’s Director of Patient Advocacy. She never stops! For those of you following the story, Sandra’s been working on changing state laws to allow students with asthma and
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Making a list, checking it twice… No, I’m not talking about Santa Claus–I’m writing to YOU! Holidays get so filled with frivolity that we often neglect important routines such as checking expiration dates on medication until
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Read the December 2009 issue of The MA Report – online now! What’s inside: “A Spoonful of Sugar: Giving Medicine to Kids”… Do you know the difference between sulfites (a preservative that some people are allergic to) and sulfates (found in some bronchodilator metered-dose inhalers)? Not a chemist?