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In 1990, Jean Bousquet and company were the first to link high eosinophil levels with asthma severity. In 1999, Sally Wenzel and company were the first to link severe asthma...

I have been lucky enough to have been enjoying unseasonably warm weather for this time of year. Unfortunately, the cold stuff is nipping at my heals. We have had a...

I was in San Francisco last week for a national allergy and asthma conference. As a Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C), I want to be up to date on new research...

Being a caregiver to your loved one living with asthma comes with its own set of challenges. One could be a parent to their child with asthma or one might...

Another rare subgroup of asthma, along with neutrophilic asthma, is persistent eosinophilic asthma. It’s a subgroup of asthma usually diagnosed in adulthood that is associated with a combination of severe...

Okay terrible pun in the title there... sorry. While I write this, I’m cruising at 37,325 feet per the in-flight entertainment screen on my WestJet flight (I wish, like AirCanada...

A story I’m proud to talk about is how I conquered exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB). As a kid, I was not able to exercise much and even had a doctor’s excuse...

'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...