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Asthma

Asthma is a common life-threatening condition and its severity is often not recognised.  Asthma is a medical condition characterised by intermittent, reversible airway obstruction. Asthma is a condition that affects the airways – the small tubes that carry air in…

National Review of Asthma Deaths Released

World Asthma Day 2014, the most far reaching National Review of Asthma Deaths has been published. Shockingly it shows almost half of deaths could have been avoided with better routine care. It has identified prescribing errors of a horrifying scale…

201 Hospital admissions a day due to Asthma

National Asthma week this week and Asthma UK state that 201 people who will be hospitalised a day because of their asthma. That’s one every 7 minutes!  They’ll be fighting for breath as their chest gets tighter and tighter and they panic, scared…