Finding Your Asthma Management Plan

Finding Your Asthma Management Plan

Asthma can't be cured, but you can control it to reduce the amount and severity of your symptoms.

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Health Highlights: May 11, 2008

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Nasal Irrigation Can Help Fight Spring Allergies

Ingredients can be bought over the counter and safely used at home


Scoliosis: An Unnatural Curve

Treatment includes watchful waiting, bracing and, sometimes, surgery

Health Tip of the Day

Children and Secondhand Smoke

Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of asthma, respiratory illness, middle ear infections and tooth decay in children. Forty-three percent of children in this country are exposed to secondhand smoke in their own homes, according to the American Lung Association.