Do they work?
Yes. Using an inhaler that opens up your airways can help your symptoms if you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There’s a good chance that it will help you feel less out of breath.
There are two main types of inhalers that help breathlessness in COPD. They both relax and open up your airways. But they work differently in your lungs. One type is called a beta-2 agonist. An example of this drug is
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October 8, 2008
A mobile medical clinic is a concept that has worked for decades in developing countries. Teams of physicians and nurses donate their time and travel together to remote areas of Haiti where even the most basic healthcare is unavailable. Cards are given out in advance to people in the community who are sick or whose children are sick. They line up outside the church of school that is being used for this purpose.
Today Hope for Read the rest of this entry »
Even kids, who are relatively cheap to insure, are finding it hard to hold onto coverage through their parents. Privately insured parents who had coverage through their jobs were 85% more likely than their publicly insured counterparts to have kids under age 19 who were uninsured, according to a study published in the Oct. 21 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The analysis of government data from 2002 to 2005 showed that two Read the rest of this entry »
DENVER, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — National Jewish Health and Roche Diagnostics Corporation have reached a strategic agreement to pursue opportunities in the growing field of molecular diagnostics. This partnership will combine National Jewish’s expertise in clinical testing and care for patients with respiratory and environmental diseases with Roche’s state-of-the-art technology to bring new diagnostic Read the rest of this entry »
SHANGHAI — A 19-year-old Beijing woman has died of bird flu, the first human case of the virus in China since February last year, the government said Tuesday, putting public-health officials on higher alert for a possible resurgence of the disease this winter.
The woman, who lived on the outskirts of China’s capital, succumbed Monday morning to the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, according to a statement by the Beijing health bureau. It didn’t Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — It’s a one-two punch for many states. First comes the expense of adding thousands of unemployed to its Medicaid rolls. Then comes the decline in revenue that stems from a struggling economy. Together, the combination has dozens of states looking for some relief, preferably from the federal government.
That relief appears unlikely to come soon.
For example, in Nevada, officials projected that enrollment in Medicaid this year Read the rest of this entry »
VIDA’s PW2 takes the complex information from a CT (computed tomography)
scan of the lung and converts it into useful 3D images and measurements that
are easily viewed by the practicing pulmonologist at the point of patient
service, or by the radiologist in the radiology department. PW2 features
include a number of lung or lobe volume and density measurements, an extensive
named airway map and a full suite of measurement tools for each airway. Read the rest of this entry »
Group’s report says premiums increased 5.7 times as fast as earnings in S.C. between 2000 and 2007
Health insurance premiums for South Carolina families rose 5.7 times faster than earnings between 2000 and 2007, according to a report released Thursday.
Annual premiums for family health coverage provided through the workplace rose from $6,600 to $11,624, an increase of 76.1 percent. Meanwhile, median earnings increased from $23,057 to $26,140, Read the rest of this entry »
A Zambian heath care organization has also launched an initiative aimed at increasing male circumcision services in the Southern African country. The initiative follows recent recommendations by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS that the practice be used in the fight against HIV. In March 2007, the two organizations recommended male circumcision as an HIV prevention measure provided it is used with other preventative mechanisms such as condom Read the rest of this entry »
Around the globe, accidents kill 830,000 children — the equivalent of all the children in Chicago — every year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the
.
The report, the first to collect all known data on child injuries worldwide, makes broad estimates because many poor countries gather few health statistics, and many children are hurt or killed without ever seeing a doctor. But it relies on the kind of household surveys that have Read the rest of this entry »