March - April 2015
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Respiratory News - March 2015
Respiratory News DNA tests on some store-brand herbal supplements showed that nearly four out of five didn’t have the ingredients listed on the labels, and a large number didn’t have a botanical substance of any kind, according to findings from the New York State Attor- ney General’s office. GNC, Target, WalMart and Walgreens were asked…
People with Respiratory Concerns - March 2015
People with Respiratory Concerns for People with Respiratory Concerns Alaska Inner Passage Cruise 7 DAYS July 11–18, 2015 Explore Alaska’s Inner Passage, round trip from Seattle on our annual vacation to Alaska, aboard Holland America’s Westerdam! See the coastal beauty from Puget Sound to Southeast Alaska, watch massive glaciers calve in Glacier Bay or Tracy…
Another View on Home Radon Dangers - March 2015
Another View on Home Radon Dangers by John R. Goodman, BS RRT John Goodman offers a bit of history and a dif ferent opinion about the need for home radon monitoring talked about in our last issue. In 1984, Stanley Watras was a construc- tion engineer at the Limerick Nuclear Plant in Pottstown, PA. As…
Patient Centered Disease Management - March 2015
Patient Centered Disease Management by Holly Marocchi, RRT In the United States, 23 percent of peo- ple who are hospitalized with a COPD exacerbation are readmitted within 30 days. (An exacerbation – or exasperation as many people like to call it – is a flare up or worsening of your symptoms.) Last October 1, the…
Sharing the Health! - March 2015
Sharing the Health! Meet William “Mike Casey,” Table Tennis Champ! by Laura J. Sullivan RCP, BTIS Achieving physical fitness goals can be quite daunting for people with COPD. Breathlessness and fa- tigue often limit how much activ- ity they are able to do. William Casey, who prefers to be called Mike, had been actively playing…
Nutritional Choices for Everyday Good Health! - March 2015
Nutritional Choices for Everyday Good Health! We hope you are enjoying our continuing series of articles on Nutrition for COPD. Remember to choose food that is high in protein as lean meat, poultry, fish, milk, yogurt, cheese and eggs. Add foods high in vitamins and miner- als as whole grain breads and cereal and brown…
New CDC Recommendations for Pneumonia Vaccines - March 2015
New CDC Recommendations for Pneumonia Vaccines As we near the end of another winter soena,sthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that people ages 65 and older accounted for 60 percent of hos- pitalizations and 79 percent of deaths from the flu. This is five times all other age groups. Unfortunately, the agency…
People: The Overlooked ‘Plus’ in Pulmonary Rehab - March 2015
People: The Overlooked ‘Plus’ in Pulmonary Rehab People: The Overlooked ‘Plus’ in Pulmonary Rehab by Louise Jones, Reading, PA The medical literature is clear: pulmo- nary rehab enables folks with COPD and other breathing issues to benefit from the regular pattern of exercise. It provides a safe environment with trained staff members who “watch over”…
Ask The Doctor - March 2015
Ask The Doctor IPF specialists, including Dr. Steven Nathan, Dr. A. Whitney Brown, Dr. Mar- ilyn Glassberg, Dr. Kevin Flaherty, Dr. Kevin Leslie and Dr. Paul Noble, answered questions about the new medications. How do we decide between pirfeni done (Esbriet)and nintedanib (Ofev) for patients with IPF? The physicians explained that both of the drugs…