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Your Health: June 23, 2008
How can you help them during an asthma-attack until help arrives.
Asthma kills eleven people every-day.
One lung health expert says... asthmatics need assurance someone is there in their time of need.
Respiratory Therapist, Al Keith says, "A lot of times people want to lean over when they're having an asthma attack because they feel like they can breathe better. you want them to be able to sit up because you want to see their eyes. You want them to breathe slow. If they have medication on board then that medication should be administered and maybe wait 15 to 20 minutes for the medication to work, if it's not working within that 15 to 20 minutes we definitely want to call 911.
Learn more about asthma and lung-health tommorrow at Al Keith's "asthma Blues" class... every Tuesday...at the old Berry Middle School... which is now Berry Community Center.
For more information call (205) 985-2064.
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New hope tonight... there's a possible cure for even late-stage skin cancers.
A man given less than a year to live because of advanced melanoma was tumor-free in two months, and had no symptoms two
years later.
Researchers conducted In an experimental treatment researchers took a specific immune system cell from the 52 year old man's body, grew more of them, and then infused them into his body.
The study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows it proved not only effective, but there were no side effects.
researchers are cautious because the man was the only success among nine patients.
They're not sure why.
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The sunshine vitamin may reflect how healthy you are.
New research finds that patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years... than those with the highest levels.
The link with heart-related deaths was particularly strong in those with low vitamin D levels.
Experts say the study results shouldn't be seen as a reason to start popping vitamin-D pills or to spend hours in the sun, which is the main source for vitamin D.
Results appear in today's Archives of Internal Medicine.
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