Monthly Newsletter from the Arizona Asthma Coalition |
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Enhance Your Clinical Care: Join Us for the 18th Annual Wheezing & Sneezing in the Desert Conference
September 21, 2024 · 8 am - 4:30 pm · Creighton University, Phoenix |
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Join us for the 18th Annual Wheezing & Sneezing in the Desert Conference on September 21, 2024. Featured speakers will address topics ranging from new treatments for asthma, allergy, and atopic dermatitis, to improving indoor air quality to healthcare/ school collaborative care. This event promises a comprehensive educational experience designed for pediatric and adult primary care providers, asthma specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurses, school nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Discover new insights, network with peers, and earn CMEs and CEUs. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your clinical care and improve patient outcomes! |
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Arizona has some of the nation's filthiest air, and it's making our patients sick
The Arizona Republic
Arizona decision-makers can no longer delay clean air action. Our summers are getting hotter and longer, prolonged drought conditions are more common, and we’ve seen the impact of more frequent and intense wildfires.
As health professionals, we’ve seen firsthand that these climate events are worsening air pollution and causing severe health consequences, especially in those with heart and lung diseases and in other vulnerable Arizonans. |
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How Climate Change Is Punishing Asthma Sufferers
Time
Jillian Alfieri didn’t even make it through her first seven months before asthma started having its way with her. The now 13-year-old had just been placed in her stroller for an early evening walk when her parents noticed that she seemed to be battling to breathe. |
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Rise in Covid jab rates may protect children against asthma attacks, study finds
The Guardian
Higher Covid vaccination rates could help protect children against asthma attacks, according to research.
While previous studies show that vaccination helps prevent Covid 19 illness, the authors believe this is the first study to assess whether Covid inoculation is associated with reductions in children’s asthma symptoms, by preventing viral illness in children with asthma. |
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A Breathtaking Crisis, Part 1: Climate Change Worsens Asthma
American Journal of Managed Care
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, often resulting in recurrent attacks of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, coughing, and excess mucus production. Experts suggest patients with asthma manage their disorder by avoiding environmental triggers but with the increasing issue of climate change, specifically air pollution, exposure can be difficult to avoid. |
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USC study reveals role of iron in allergic asthma and points to potential new therapies
Keck School of Medicine at USC
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that iron is a key regulator of energy usage by immune cells in the lungs and that targeting iron uptake could help treat asthma and other allergic diseases. |
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Join the Arizona Asthma Coalition As a nonprofit partnership since 1996, AAC has worked together with concerned stakeholders including public health, environmental quality, managed care, education, individual physicians and nurses, hospitals, foundations, families and other colleagues. Become a member of the Arizona Asthma Coalition or renew your membership and help us continue this important work. Join or renew here |
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