Menstruation may be a contributing factor in near-fatal asthma attacks in patients with unstable asthma, reported Dr...is the first study associating menstruation and near-fatal asthma (NFA) conducted in a large group of patients, and suggests...

...visits to the emergency room, hospitalizations, near fatal asthma and death as compared to those with normal or high POD...asthmatics with low POD, even without a history of near fatal asthma, were more likely to suffer life-threatening attacks...

...characteristics of children at risk for a fatal asthma attack include the use of more...as markers for elevated risk of fatal asthma, but Dr. Loughlin views these cutoffs...of the most important factors in fatal asthma episodes is poor access to consistent...

...that people with a history of near-fatal asthma reported less sensation of breathlessness...In addition, patients with near-fatal asthma suffered an impaired ability to...in people who had had an almost fatal asthma attack, but it was blunted compared...

...several area forest fires, not from field burning. Wind had dispersed any grass smoke by late afternoon, when Buck's fatal asthma attack occurred, the spokeswoman said. $00:9800016951: $199:A9800016951 $01:Copyright 1998 The Columbian Publishing...

Robert L. Waters Sr. was apparently having an asthma attack when he told a Superior Court judge and U.S. marshals that he couldn't breathe April 20, the District's chief medical examiner said yesterday, raising the possibility that the 54-year-old defendant might have been saved with prompt

Byline: Neil Russell A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl died after suffering a massive asthma attack at home. Hannah Foote collapsed and stopped breathing in front of her mother and sister. Mother Mairi, 37, made a desperate bid to revive Hannah until the arrival of paramedics, who confirmed she had suffered

Byline: SANDRA MURPHY HEALTH CORRESPONDENT ASTHMA kills 40 people a year in Northern Ireland - but 90 per cent of the deaths are preventable, a shock report revealed on World Asthma Day yesterday. The respiratory disease - which affects 150,000 people in the Province - should not be written off as

Byline: Associated Press EVANSTON, Ill. - The mother of Northwestern football player Rashidi Wheeler plans to file a lawsuit against the university later this week seeking ``substantial'' damages over his death in a preseason conditioning drill. The university, meanwhile, outlined for the first

...what he has termed "potentially fatal asthma." He said his study of 118 patients...said his study shows potentially fatal asthma affects all ages, races and income...rate in patients with potentially fatal asthma," said Greenberger. He said his...