6 Actions to Control Asthma
Whether making a shopping list or mapping a fire-exit strategy, planning can be useful. It can even be life saving.This holds true for asthma, a chronic disease that inflames and narrows the airways and can make those affected by it feel as if they are breathing through a straw. Controlling asthma requires daily attention. Working […]
Helping Manage The Cost of Asthma And COPD Inhalers
With the intense summer heat and horrible air quality, some people across the California Central Valley and other areas of the country are finding it difficult to breathe. When this happens, they quickly turn to their asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) inhalers. Greater use of these devices means more refills are needed.For many […]
New Guidelines Include Medications For Treatment of Alcohol Dependence
Well-established ways to overcome alcoholism include counseling, 12-step recovery programs and addiction treatment centers. But government statistics show that 75 percent of people receiving conventional treatment for alcohol dependence relapse to heavy drinking within the first year of beginning treatment. A division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has recently issued […]