Living

'Tis the season, for email or letters from Human Resources or Insurance Companies. Perhaps almost nothing is changing for your insurance in 2017, or maybe everything is. It's certainly an...

It’s a cycle: every year, a few weeks into school starting (and, often again a few weeks after Winter Break), some sort of virus or five starts circulating elementary school...

Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, formerly known as Churg Strauss Syndrome, is a very rare subgroup of asthma where severe asthma is combined with a combination of other medical conditions. Here...

One weekend in mid-September, I stood at the back of a classroom at Stanford University Medical School during the MedicineX conference. Up front, a presentation was underway about an app...

A few years ago, I had the worst asthma episode of my life. After several hours in the emergency room I was given a referral to see an asthma and...

Over the years, I have done a good number of phone meetings and conference calls, both via old-school telephone and with platforms like Google Hangout, Skype or even other more...

It's a simple enough, one pedal stroke after the next, left, right, left, right, left. I lean into the turn, feather the brakes as I zip down a hill, stand...

When it comes to my asthma, I want as much information as I can get. Print out of my PFTs, no matter how stellar? You bet.  Allergy tests to figure...

Recently, I was talking to a friend and mentioned how much I hate migraines. She looked at me and said, "But you have asthma." I responded with "Yes" and give...

I have had my own nebulizer since 1985, and have doled them out to patients since 1995. So, I guess that makes me sort of a nebulizer expert. Here I...

There are lots of reasons I don’t exercise as much as I should, and you probably have lots of them, yourself, too. Whether it’s an off day or an off...

For those of you with asthma, you probably know what triggers (or causes) an asthma attack for you. Triggers can be different for everyone, and they can change over time...

What do concerts, some plays, and haunted houses have in common? They often use some sort of fake fog effect to make them look cooler, or more spooky, or more...

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was sixteen, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when I was 21. The first headline I read about a link between the two...

The interesting thing about memories is that they can be soooo different – what parents remember and what kids remember can be very different. My daughter is in high school...

October 10th is World Mental Health Day. Living with asthma, or any other chronic disease, it’s important to know the impact of life with health issues on our mental health—and...

Did you know that many kids with asthma might take “drug holidays”, or medication breaks, during summer when they are out of the classroom? I didn’t, until I read a...

Having an asthmatic child is tough. There is nothing worse than watching your child struggling to breathe. Modern medicine has come a really long way as far as treatment options...

At a recent specialist appointment, the doctor remarked that my chart was on to its third volume...   He was referencing to some data that he wanted his resident to...

Way back in 1985, when I was a fifteen-year-old asthmatic with high risk asthma, I underwent testing to see if I had gastroesophageal reflux (GERD). Thankfully, I did not have...