Exercise Induced Asthma Triggers and Management
Exercise commonly provokes asthma in many, from 9 percent of non asthmatics to 12 15 percent of Americans during activity. Tests show 11 percent of 1984 U S Olympic athletes had asthma or exercise induced asthma, yet many compete successfully with pre exercise medications. Short bouts and outdoor windier activities rise risk, while indoor workouts and swimming pose less danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Donald A. Mahler
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon
N.H
Medicine and Science In Sports and
Mahler
Emergency Medicine
Music therapy comes to Hospice services in Douglas County
Sharon Longabach, a brain tumor patient at Presbyterian Manor of Lawrence, receives twice weekly visits from Hospice music therapist Kelly Stewart who uses an auto harp, guitar and songbook to sing and engage her in varied activities. The program aims to ease pain, aid emotional expression, and stimulate social and cognitive skills for terminally ill patients and their families.
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Sharon Longabach
Kelly Stewart
Stewart
Longabach
Presbyterian Manor
Lawrence
Douglas County
This Land
Land
Edelweiss
Hospice
Julie Andrews
London
Mike Yoder
Patty Byington
Byington
Hospice offers varied services in Douglas County care
Hospice Care in Douglas County Missouri provides alert, pain free end of life support at home or in home like settings. Kay Metzger notes the program has run since 1982 and serves 15 to 25 patients daily with volunteers nurses home health aides social workers spiritual care and music therapy plus bereavement support for families and friends.
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Douglas County
336
Kay Metzger
Hospice
Douglas
Call
Loofah sponges tied to skin infections warning
A Journal of Clinical Microbiology report links loofah bath sponges to recurrent folliculitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Dr. Edward Bottone notes moisture and skin debris in a patient’s home sponge can foster bacterial growth. synthetic sponges less prone to contamination. Epilepsy device showing 47 percent seizure reduction after 18 months in some patients. still experimental in the US.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Edward J. Bottone
Mount Sinai Medical School
New York
Bottone
Basim Uthman
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
University of Florida Brain Institute
Gainesville
Fla
Elinor Ben-Menachem
University of Goteborg
Sweden
American Academy of Neurology
Uthman
United States
Ilo Leppik
Minneaport
Leppik
American Epilepsy Society
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Jane Brody
New York Times News Service
The
Journal- World
Barbara Gibbons
Leigh Anne Nicholson
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