Standard teaching of health care professionals for decades in the United States has been that those individuals who have more than rare instances of asthma need one medicine to use daily to prevent symptoms and a second medicine in the form of a bronchodilator inhaler to be available to stop, or rescue from, symptoms. The daily...
For the past three years, I have written about updates in peanut desensitization during the month of July. However, I have received questions about the risks of COVID-19 for those with asthma over the past month. So, this month’s blog will --for the 3rd month this year—be devoted to the medical condition affecting all of us in so many...
I had planned to write this month about the latest research in biologic therapy for allergic diseases—the theme of this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology during March 13th-March 16th in Philadelphia. That plan changed at 4:10pm on Sunday March 8th when I received an e-mail announcing that...
Unless someone has lived under the proverbial rock in the past month and does not obtain current event information, or is not even seeing the financial markets’ numbers from this past week, we are all aware in the USA of the novel coronavirus (named on February 11th as COVID-19) outbreak that began in China about 2 months ago. We are...
In a few hours, we enter a new year and a new decade (depending on whether one counts from zero to nine or from one to ten) with hope for the world and for ourselves. The new year is also the start of people being able to buy marijuana in Illinois for recreational use. According to yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, two business chains that...
September brings the start of another academic year. After a relaxing summer in the sun, adults often feel a vicarious urge in the autumn to learn new things or to change habits. Whether it is now or with the New Year’s resolutions of December-January, the topic that is among the top tier of things to want to change is to lose...