New warnings on safety of asthma drugs
The US government is taking steps to curb use of some long-acting asthma drugs used by millions, issuing safety restrictions to lower a life-threatening risk that asthma could worsen suddenly.
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
Pharmac is being taken to court over asthma drug subsidy
Drug firm Astrazeneca is challenging plans by the Government's drug-buying agency Pharmac to reduce the subsidy on their combination inhaler – Symbicort to match the subsidy on competing firm GSK’s Seretide.
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
Breathing to boost sports performance seminars
Glenn White is presenting two seminars in November on breathing to boost sports performance at Les Mills, Victoria Street and Les Mills Britomart, Auckland CBD.
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Friday 23 September 2011
Just Four Steps to Fitness? Shut Your Mouth!
Glenn White's article in the July 'Ponsonby News'
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Saturday 2 July 2011
AIMA dinner presentation - Patrick McHugh & Glenn White
Fernz Restaurant, Birkenhead, Tuesday 28 June 2011. NOTE: Open to Australasian integrative medicine Association (AIMA) members and guests only. Patrick will present part of research TCTTRT has been involved in, especially Buteyko Breathing Technique & plans for Auckland-based clinical trial. Then Glenn will 'demystify' the Buteyko Breathing Technique.
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Friday 24 June 2011
Buteyko: Helping thousands overcome asthma naturally
Do you or your child have asthma? No doubt you are familiar with the standard treatments for asthma, the puffers (relievers to open up the airways and inhaled steroids to reduce airway inflammation) but new studies are showing that many are overusing these drugs and this may be contributing to the alarming rise in asthma.
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Friday 6 May 2011
Australian Integrative Medicine Association Inc Seminar
7-8 May at Massey University, Auckland. "Balancing Body, Mind and Heart - Pratical Solutions for Everyday Problems"
All Health Professionals welcome to learn about the future of integrative medicine. Click link below for more details on the AIMA website.
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Thursday 5 May 2011
Learn how to stop asthma attacks
Irish TV interview for World Asthma Day, 3 May 2011. Ireland's TV3 interviewed two students of AsthmaCare.ie courses along with practitioner Patrick McKeown. During the interview, Patrick demonstrates how to unblock the nose, stop an asthma attack and explains what causes asthma. You can also find out how Frank and Ellen, both attendees to Patrick's course, did.
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Tuesday 3 May 2011
To stave off panic attacks don't take a deep breath
A new treatment for panic attack focuses on getting patients to breathe less and lends further validation to the role that over-breathing plays in panic attacks and stress disorders.
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Sunday 26 December 2010
As easy as drawing breath
I was gratified to read John Roughan’s article in the New Zealand Herald 9 October and learn that a tip he learned on the Buteyko course he did back in 2006 has helped control his sleep apnoea.
Unfortunately most people are unaware that snoring and sleep apnoea may be the result of a faulty breathing pattern and that learning a breathing technique like Buteyko can help resolve the problem.
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Sunday 7 November 2010
NYC Radio WBAI interview with Dr Robert Cowie
Dr Robert Cowie, from the University of Calgary, Canada and a world authority on asthma, authored one of the largest randomised controlled trials of the Buteyko technique. The trial is published in Respiratory Medicine 2008; 102:726-32.
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Thursday 21 October 2010
Breathing exercises useful in helping to manage asthma - Asthma UK
Neil Church, Chief executive of Asthma UK, reports on encouraging research by Professor Mike Thomas, and one of Asthma UK’s medical advisers, that suggests breathing exercises could indeed play a useful part as an add-on therapy in helping to manage asthma.
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Monday 11 October 2010
My job: Helping others to breathe easy
Article on Glenn White by Donna McIntyre in NZ Herald
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Tuesday 21 September 2010
New Zealand Asthma Awareness Week
Speaking at the beginning of Asthma Awareness Week in New Zealand (3 to 9 May), Asthma Foundation Chief Executive Jane Patterson said: “Asthma is really common in New Zealand – 1 in 4 children and 1 in 6 adults has asthma. There is no cure yet.
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Monday 3 May 2010
A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma
Jane E. Brody of the New York Times writes about witnessing the 'miraculous' transformation in her friend's asthma after learning the Buteyko method. To read the full article go to the New York Times website:
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Monday 2 November 2009
Buteyko Asthma Endorsement UK
It surprises many people to learn that, according to medical literature, no other treatment for asthma has ever achieved better results than Buteyko's Method.
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Monday 1 June 2009
Nurses to be trained to teach Buteyko Breathing Technique to asthmatics
A new course to train nurses how to teach the Buteyko Breathing Technique to people with asthma has been launched by Coventry University and the Buteyko Breathing Association.
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Monday 6 April 2009
FDA Panel decides asthma drugs - Serevent and Oxis - aren’t worth the risk
An FDA Panel said Thursday that the risks of death and serious injury associated with two popular brands of asthma inhalers are greater than the benefits of the drugs. However, in what is sure to be a controversial opinion, the panel said that Advair (Symbicort) should continue to be used to treat asthma.
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Thursday 11 December 2008
F.D.A. Panel Votes to Ban Asthma Drugs
New York Times article: ROCKVILLE, Md. - A panel of federal drug experts voted on Thursday that the drugs Serevent and Foradil should be banned from use in the treatment of asthma, but the experts said that Advair and Symbicort, which together are far more popular, should continue to be used.
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