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Leading the Way to Better Breathing: Managed Care Organizations and Asthma Home Visiting Services in California – a Tool for MCOs and Partners
Asthma home visiting services are a tried and true method for improving health outcomes, lowering health care utilization costs, improving ...
Asthma in the News
Study Suggests Type of Asthma (Allergic vs. Non-allergic) Impacts COVID-19 Severity in AdultsResearchers Zhu et al from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed data from 492,768 participants in the UK Biobank, which stores biologic samples from participants and is linked to their medical records. The researchers found 65,677 participants had asthma and 641 patients had severe COVID-19. “After adjusting for […]
Policy Action Alert
Scientists Advocate for More Attention on the Role of Airborne Transmission of COVID-19On July 6th, authors Lidia Morawska and Donald K. Milton published, “It is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19.” Signed by 239 scientists, the stated purpose of the publication is: “We appeal to the medical community and to the relevant national and international bodies to recognize the potential for airborne spread of COVID-19. There […]
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