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On the Web
- Living With Respiratory Disease - A discussion group for those affected by respiratory conditions. [Registration required.]
- Asthma Pillow - Contains herbs that may relieve symptoms of this condition.
- Asthma Freedom Inc - Range of products for those with the condition, including nebulizers, air purifiers and meters. Includes product details.
- Living With Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - Site for patients explaining the disease and its management. Stories from patients, glossary of terms, tips on stopping smoking. Drug company sponsored, but non promotional.
- Action Asthma - Fact sheets available for patients, parents and Green Dragon section for young children. Review of news relating to asthma. Drug company sponsored but non promotional. Requires brief registration.
- Asthma News in the UK and Ireland - Includes news articles, statistics, glossary and complementary therapies.
- National Asthma Campaign - Independent UK charity. Disease information, news, services for patients, telephone helpline. Leaflets can be ordered.
- Dramatic Asthma Relief - A report on alternative asthma treatment based on personal experience.
- Cure Your Asthma in Just 1 Week - Personal account of a natural treatment for asthma, sinus and allergies that has been proven to work by clinical trials.
- Buteyko Method - The training video teaches a healthy, drug-free way to manage asthma symptoms, bronchitis, emphysema and other breathing problems.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dry powder inhaler - The Dry Powder Inhaler is generally a proprietary device to deliver medications for the treatment or maintenance management of respiratory diseases and conditions. These conditions or diseases may include Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema, COPD and Diabetes.
- Electron-transferring flavoprotein - Electron transfer flavoproteins (ETFs) serve as specific electron acceptors for primary dehydrogenases, transferring the electrons to terminal respiratory systems such as electron-transferring-flavoprotein dehydrogenase. They can be functionally classified into constitutive, "housekeeping" ETFs, mainly involved in the oxidation of fatty acids (Group I), and ETFs produced by some prokaryotes under specific growth conditions, receiving electrons only from the oxidation of specific substrates (Group II).
- Occupational asthma - Occupational asthma is defined as: "a disease characterized by variable airflow limitation and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli encountered outside the workplace".American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- Asthma UK - Asthma UK is a British medical research charity dedicated to respiratory conditions and the curing of asthma. The organization was known as National Asthma Campaign until May 2004 when it was renamed .
- SARS conspiracy theory - The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in the spring of 2003, when Sergei Kolesnikov, a Russian scientist and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, first publicized his claim that the SARS coronavirus is a synthesis of measles and mumps. This compound cannot be formed in the natural world and thus, according to him, the SARS virus must have been produced under laboratory conditions.