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Friday Links – Asthma Boxing “Excuse,” Flu Vaccines
Boxer Vitali Klitschko Says Some Controversial Things About Asthma I don’t know anything about boxing except what the Rocky movies taught me, but I’m pretty sure you should file this under “Trash Talk.” (Wildly inaccurate, stereotype-perpetuating trash talk.) The Problems with Privately Funded Research Ever wonder how accurate medical research is, particularly when a pharmaceutical [...] -
How Would You Like an LABA Substitute?
I came across an article on the Denver Post website this morning you should read. In it, you’ll learn about tiotropium, a COPD medication that could serve as an alternative treatment for people who need long-acting beta-agonists like Serevent. LABAs, you’ll recall, work just fine for most asthmatics but now carry a black-box warning because [...] -
Friday Links – Emma Stone’s On-Set Attack. Nutrition, Metabolism and Asthma Risk.
When I used to work away from home, every so often I’d face a run of days packed with project deadlines and multiple little tasks but also the kind of minor obstacles and tiny problems that are the death of productivity. Meetings that drag on too long. Phone and email tag with project contacts. Fire [...] -
Breathing and the Small Screen
The other night, I caught the second episode of “Parenthood,” a new TV series loosely based on the hilarious and often bittersweet 1989 movie with Steve Martin. This new series, which marks the second attempt at translation for the small screen, retains the large, multigenerational family of the original movie. The episode I watched portrayed [...] -
Asthma on American Idol
Do you watch American Idol? AG has a beautiful, powerful voice that she does not get from me. She and her Steadfast Sidekick love that show. When they watch it, I usually cringe over Idol’s smarmy, heavy-handed editing of contestants’ “very special stories” that shouldn’t have any bearing on a talent competition, anyway, since everyone [...] -
Asthma in the Media
Parent Websites and Asthma Coverage Asthma Death of British Schoolboy, Subsequent Suspensions, Highlight Need for Better Awareness and Training Changing Health Perceptions Through Television (or wanting to) Breathing Problems after the Haiti Earthquake New York EMTs Ignore Dying, Asthmatic Pregnant Woman Paige Dechausse and Her Inhaler on American Idol Asthma in Pop Culture: Gilmore Girls, [...]
