Bronchial thermoplasty cleared by FDA but not covered by health insurance. Sept. 5, 2012— -- For Jenny McLeland, 33, of St. Louis, severe asthma restricted not only her breathing but her daily ...

If you've ever tried to drink something through one of those little red coffee stirrers instead of a full-sized straw, you know what it's like to breathe with asthma. Twenty-five million Americans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bronchial thermoplasty uses thermal energy to reduce bronchial hyperreactivity and airway inflammation. The ...

A new study shows that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty, the first non-drug treatment for asthma, demonstrated an overall improvement in asthma control. McMaster physicians have proven ...

San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 -- Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a catheter-based procedure for the treatment of asthma, announced today that positive results from the ...

Bronchial thermoplasty is a bronchoscopic procedure to reduce the mass of airway smooth muscle and attenuate bronchoconstriction. We examined the effect of bronchial thermoplasty on the control of ...

How is severe asthma defined and who does it affect? Internationally, severe asthma is defined as anybody who is on maximum therapy, which has no measurable side effects, but still have symptoms of ...

On bad days, even a short walk can be a struggle for Sankaran Lakshmi. The software programmer and mother of three, has suffered from severe asthma for more than 20 years. "I can't get up from the bed ...

Most cases of asthma can be well controlled by following standard guidelines. [1] However, every practice also has at least one patient whose life, despite adherence to treatment guidelines, is still ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Patients with severe asthma experienced ...

We'll stay above the diaphragm with another condition affecting maybe up to one in five Australians - asthma. The mainstays of asthma treatment are medications. But a non-drug treatment being ...