Samuel Taylor

Several holiday seasons ago I wrote an article about a terrible asthma episode I had while traveling to Michigan to be with family for Christmas. It was a really difficult...

Sometimes it feels like my asthma is completely subjective. While I have an objective diagnosis of asthma since infancy, it has become so inconsistent over my life and, as a...

As patients, sometimes it can feel like medicine moves too slow. We depend on new treatments, better medications and superior understandings to manage chronic conditions, like asthma. Although it can...

A friend of mine once told me, “...we live to experience art.”; a phrase that has stuck with me through many phases of my artistic career. We all appreciate art...

Finding a partnership can be difficult. A business partner, an exercise partner, a romantic partner; all have similar qualities that make the partnership constructive. To me, choosing a doctor is...

Asthma is often an invisible illness, it presents primarily experiential and sometimes an auditory group of symptoms. However, asthma can be linked to visible conditions as well. This is an...

It seems like everywhere you go, there is a trigger for your asthma. That’s been my experience. When I lived on the east coast of the United States and Canada...

It’s not my most common asthma symptom but it’s certainly my most disliked: chest tightness. As an asthmatic since birth, I have experienced my fair share of chest tightness over...

Like many other people with asthma, my asthma comes partnered with allergies. They co-mingle together and are an infamous duo in my life. This dynamic duo has a very clear...

Have you ever felt a vibration in your chest? Maybe you’ve even heard it, like a biological bassoon, making your once silent asthma, audible. Wheezing is a symptom of asthma...

Editor's Note: Insights for this article were from a discussion with Dr. O'Boyle, Family Medicine M.D., and were combined with the thoughts and opinions of the author. In a world...

In the United States, we live in a country where we reserve the constitutional right to freely protest; an incredibly powerful and integral pillar of an evolving, progressive, society. While...

Spring is usually a difficult time for people with asthma to be out and about, although this year we have no choice but to stay home. We aren’t usually told...

Allergies often accompany asthma. They are separable, although many asthmatics experience flares because of seasonal allergies or other allergen triggers. Interestingly, a common allergen is not often discussed, which most...

Nothing goes together quite like asthma and allergies. It’s like peanut butter and jelly, but terrible and unenjoyable. If you are reading this and have asthma, it is likely that...

It would seem that my family has lung complications coded into our genome. I have asthma, my father suffers from chronic bronchitis, and my sister would get pneumonia almost every...

Asthma has no discretion; it will tighten its grip around a person of any sex, age, ethnicity, or body type. As a disease with many different variables and pathologies, it...

Something that we are consistently reminded of, as asthmatics, is our heart health. In recent years the correlation between heart disease and asthma has become more intertwined, especially in adults...

As asthmatics, we know that we experience asthma in our own unique way. We each have different triggers, symptoms, and even medications. There are also differences between medications but one...

Depression is a sensitive subject that often feels taboo for those who need to talk about it most. The irony is, that it's more common than we would like to...