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Dina Lohan Says Lindsay Went to ER for Asthma
Lindsay Lohan went to the hospital on Thursday night because she was having an asthma attack, her mom tells PEOPLE. "She was losing oxygen. She couldn't breathe," Dina Lohan says about her 21-year-old daughter, whose emergency room trip with deejay Samantha Ronson was photographed.Uh Hello - I Have Asthma!!
I went to a yoga class the other night and just about everything about it was perfect. It was a Vinyasa class, so we did all these different arm balancing poses and hip openers, and the music was really vibrant and loud (I love that). The instructor kicked my butt.You Asked: Burning Lungs From Running in the Cold
Hi Fit,
I recently started running outdoors and am really enjoying it. It's started to cool off, and breathing in the cold air really burns my throat and lungs when I jog. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?
Tips for how to get an Aid from Unlikely Resources
A growing number of plans offer specially trained case managers to help patients during a major illness. Different from disease-management programs, which focus on patients with a chronic condition such as asthma or diabetes, the case-management services are for patients with costly and complex medical conditions such as cancer or an organ transplant. These managers — typically nurses — help patients with everything from avoiding duplicated tests to finding the best-priced prescriptions and other services.One of these days maybe your magic won't affect me...and your kiss won't make me weak
So here I am, 1:30-ish in the afternoon, chilling at my house, and having a hard time breathing. GREAT. All weekend was pretty amazing, on friday I ate a ton of pizza.A hard ending for housekeepers
When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations. On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer.I hate my asthma
I have exercise induced bronchospasms (EIB), which sometimes makes wanting to exercise so hard. I take my inhaler before hand, exercise, and then after (and sometimes during) my heart rate skyrockets. I’m gonna try to push myself to go to the gym tonight, get on the elliptical and tough it out.Doctor Congressman is Uninsured
Rep. Steve Kagen is a doctor, a Democrat and, as far as his office has been able to determine, the only member of Congress who does not have any kind of health insurance. The way he describes it, it happened as an afterthought.Drugstore Clinics Expanding List of Treatments
We've already heard that some drugstores were starting to treat people for minor problems... http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tc-biz-retail-clinics-0605-jun05,0,515234.story Amid the economic downturn and slow growth for retail and outpatient medical-care services, pharmacy giants Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp.Report: Iraqi Refugees in US Need More Help
Thousands of Iraqi refugees resettled in the U.S. are living in poverty and need additional federal aid to survive the nation's economic crisis, according to a new report by an international aid agency. The report - issued Tuesday by the International Rescue Committee, a New York-based refugee resettlement organization - found that the U.S.
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