Category Archives: Asthma News

When Irish flights are cancelled, asthmatics close your mouth! While volcanic ash plumes over Ireland may have been an isolated event in the past, this is no longer the situation. For how long the Icelandic volcanoes roar into the atmosphere … Continue reading →

BREATHE FREELY IF YOU HAVE ASTHMA by Jerome Burne, The Sunday Telegraph, 31 December 1995. Asthma, as we all know, is a disease that prevents people getting enough air into their lungs, because the passageways close up. The trouble is … Continue reading →

ASTHMATICS TAUGHT TO BREATHE AS COSMONAUTS NZ Doctor, 23/06/95 A breathing technique similar to that which allows Russian cosmonauts to survive for long periods in outer space is being trialled in Australia to assess its application for treating asthma. In … Continue reading →

QUOTES & REFERENCES “I have just watched a roomful of people who have suffered terribly from perhaps the most rampant disease of this generation, long thought to be incurable, begin to recover from it. Dramatically. Almost incredibly. Within five days.” … Continue reading →

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE Sunday Tribune, 14 July 2002 Most of us know somebody with asthma writes Kate O Flaherty, It affects some 300,000 adults and children in Ireland, and we have the forth highest prevalence in the world. The … Continue reading →

RUSSIAN TECHNIQUE HELPS ASTHMATICS by Kathryn McNeil, Christchurch Press; June 1995 A breathing technique similar to that which allows Russian cosmonauts to survive a long time in outer space is being used to help asthma sufferers in Australia and New … Continue reading →

ASTHMA UNDER ATTACK Breathing space: A controversial approach to treating asthma has brought rapid relief and lifestyle benefits to one chronic sufferer and his family. by Russell Lander, The Bulletin (Australia); 8 October 1996, p26-27. For 14 years I have … Continue reading →

Drug Seller Defection by Ray Moynihan From the Australian Financial Review, Thursday, 23 August 2001 While the alarming incidence of asthma has health authorities worried, drug companies are making a fortune out of medications. Ray Moynihan meets a former pharmaceutical … Continue reading →

WONDER CURE FROM RUSSIA IS AHEAD BY A NOSE by: James Hughes-Onslow, The Daily Express, 6th August 1996 Forcing your lungs to breathe less when you are gasping requires discipline. Professor Buteyko was brutal, taping patients’ mouths shut so they … Continue reading →

NEW HOPE ON ASTHMA by ANGHARAD ap GWILYM, The Daily Express, Tuesday June 18, 1996 If you are wheezing all the way to the beach this summer, you will not be alone – asthma affects a staggering three million Britons. … Continue reading →