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Archive for June, 2009
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Asthma Steroids and the Cytokine Storm
From Marie in the comments: Taken from http://www.newsday.com, speaking about cases in New York City: “The most common risk factor detected among confirmed swine flu cases in the city has been asthma, health officials said. Last week, the agency also reported 567 swine flu hospitalizations occurring in the city’s five boroughs. Citywide, at least 79 percent of the swine [...] -
Swine Flu, Asthma and Australia
Some new information has come out on swine flu and asthma recently, and although it affects those in the southern hemisphere more than my part of the world right now, I’m signal-boosting for everyone because it contains some good information. Namely, the National Asthma Council Australia has issued a flu alert for all the asthma sufferers [...] -
Singulair to Carry Psychiatric Precaution Now
With the recent deluge of swine flu and whiny job search posts here, let’s switch gears for a moment. Remember all the press about Singulair, moodiness, depression, and suicide a year or so ago? Now the FDA has announced Singulair and the other leukotriene modifiers (Accolate, Zyflo) will contain a precaution about these neuropsychiatric symptoms. Does this [...] -
Swine Flu and Asthma
A compilation of posts, from most to least recent: H1N1 News – November 20, 2009 Reader Response on the H1N1 Cough H1N1 News – November 13, 2009 H1N1 News – November 6, 2009 H1N1 News – October 30, 2009 Reader Response – H1N1, School, and Asthma Kids H1N1 News – October 23, 2009 H1N1 News – October 16, 2009 Scientific American: Pandemic Payoff H1N1 News [...] -
H1N1 Probably a Pandemic After Today
Edited 06/11-09 to add: Yep, it’s a pandemic. The World Health Organization is expected to declare a level 6 alert, meaning a swine flu pandemic, today. Besides not panicking, the main thing to remember in light of this (hypothetical/near future) WHO development is that calling H1N1 a “pandemic” has more to do with the spread of the [...] -
Asthma Headlines: Swine Flu, Yoga, Obesity
The American Lung Association has created a swine flu page. As long suspected, yoga appears to help asthma, but (and this is key) only in conjunction with – and not in lieu of – regular maintenance medications. Finally, while obesity doesn’t appear to make asthma symptoms worse, it can affect the way the body reacts to asthma [...] -
On this Economy and My Story: Some Lists
When AG was around 15 months old, I left my full-time job for what was meant to be the first few years of her young childhood. This was in the spring of 2000. I had graduated from college in the spring of 1998, so I had not traveled a terribly long distance down the career [...]
