Are you paying more and getting less for your healthcare dollars? Patients’ rights to routine medical care are increasingly in doubt – all in an effort to save money in our overburdened healthcare system. Truth is, asthma, allergy and anaphylaxis require professional medical care – these are NOT do-it-yourself diseases.
Traditional immunotherapy – allergy shots – are effective against numerous pollens, dust mites, animal dander, insect venom, and more. Another therapy – sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT – which uses drops under the tongue instead of shots, shows promise, according to JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
State anaphylaxis emergency preparedness laws are changing nationwide to ensure schools have policies in place to address situations in which a student is suddenly found in the throes of an attack without an epinephrine auto-injector. But not all school districts have updated their policies or are aware when discrepancies exist. With anaphylaxis, rapid treatment saves [...]
It’s no secret: Allergy and asthma families embrace solutions that offer freedom from symptoms, eliminate needless hardships and reduce wasteful spending. In fact, we don’t accept bland very well. We are motivated to use whatever tools we can in order to get where we want to be when we want to be there. That’s [...]
Successfully overcoming allergies and asthma begins with knowledge and understanding, and you can never have enough trusted resources for the best information and products available. This is why Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
New York residents: join AANMA in supporting Senate Bill 2210 and Assembly Bill 2566 to permit students to carry and self-administer prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors during the school day.
Check out AANMA’s “Fun, Fit and Breathing Free” Calendar featuring so many ways to get moving and grooving that you’ll find it difficult to sit still even with asthma and exercise-induced-bronchospasm. It’s free to new AANMA members, so join today!!!
Are you paying more and getting less for your healthcare dollars? Patients’ rights to routine medical care are increasingly in doubt – all in an effort to save money in our overburdened healthcare system. Truth is, asthma, allergy and anaphylaxis require professional medical care – these are NOT do-it-yourself diseases.
Turns out you can go home again. Eric L. Caplan, MD, FACAAI, FAAP, grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo. His medical training took him east to Virginia, then Indiana and finally Georgia, but he always wanted to return home. He joined Colorado Springs Allergy & Asthma Clinic in 2004.
Feeling more and more like the nation’s healthcare piggy bank? Shaken, pinched and poked at every turn? No wonder! The Kaiser Foundation reports insurance premiums soared a whopping 131 percent in the last decade. Commercial insurance and government payers are shifting healthcare costs onto consumers faster than Farmer Dell can ring the dinner bell. And [...]
It’s spring! Plant a little happiness in your backyard or in containers on the front steps this year. Start with a packet of seeds or a six-pack of your favorite herbs and veggies from the garden center. Buy lush, healthy specimens, plant in good soil, add water and tend according to directions.
In March 2012, the Food and Drug Administration held a pubic hearing in which Janet Woodcock, MD, Director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, posed the following questions: Should there be more flexibility in FDA’s concept of non-prescription drugs? Can FDA broaden the assistance that a consumer gets, for example,
Traditional immunotherapy – allergy shots – are effective against numerous pollens, dust mites, animal dander, insect venom, and more. Another therapy – sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT – which uses drops under the tongue instead of shots, shows promise, according to JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
State anaphylaxis emergency preparedness laws are changing nationwide to ensure schools have policies in place to address situations in which a student is suddenly found in the throes of an attack without an epinephrine auto-injector. But not all school districts have updated their policies or are aware when discrepancies exist. With anaphylaxis, rapid treatment saves [...]
Every time Apolo Anton Ohno took to the ice in the summer of 2000, the symptoms returned: tightness in his chest, intense coughing, difficulty breathing. He attributed it to lack of conditioning – certainly nothing to see a doctor about, or so he thought. Symptoms only worsened and it took him longer to recover [...]
MAY 9, 2013 – JOIN US!! Congressional Briefing, 9-10 am, Rm B338, Rayburn House Office Building — “Evidence-Based Asthma and Anaphylaxis Care Saves Lives and Money” See speakers here Guest Speaker: Apolo Anton Ohno Allergy & Asthma Health Fair, 10:30 am-1:30 pm, Rayburn Foyer (first floor) Free asthma and allergy screenings/interactive anaphylaxis and EIB [...]
It’s no secret: Allergy and asthma families embrace solutions that offer freedom from symptoms, eliminate needless hardships and reduce wasteful spending. In fact, we don’t accept bland very well. We are motivated to use whatever tools we can in order to get where we want to be when we want to be there. That’s [...]
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