ALLMedicine™ Environmental Asthma Center

Aug 20th, 2020 - In 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in long-term flooding of 80% of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mold-infested homes gave rise to concerns about increased childhood asthma. To address these concerns, a diverse community-academic partnership used a comm...

Mar 7th, 2020 - Families often struggle to manage their child's asthma. Clinicians caring for children with asthma struggle too as they are tasked with balancing the limited time available in clinic and the need to provide comprehensive care. As a direct conseque...

Dec 11th, 2019 - This document presents the protocol for conducting the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study in New Orleans, Louisiana. The goal of the HEAL study is to implement and test an Asthma Counselor (AC) intervention program that addres...

Oct 6th, 2019 - Overview Asthma is a clinical syndrome characterized by episodic reversible airway obstruction, increased bronchial reactivity, and airway inflammation. Asthma results from complex interactions among inflammatory cells, their mediators, airway epi...

Jun 12th, 2019 - Objective: Asthma carries a high burden of disease for residents of Puerto Rico. We conducted this study to better understand asthma-related healthcare use and to examine potential asthma triggers.Methods: We characterized asthma-related healthcar...

Aug 31st, 2017 - The Sixth Jack Pepys Workshop on Asthma in the Workplace focused on six key themes regarding the recognition and assessment of work-related asthma and airway diseases: (1) cleaning agents and disinfectants(includinginswimmingpools)asirritantsandse.

Dec 5th, 2016 - Although traditional health care payment models have not covered the costs of home-based environmental interventions, there are emerging payment models that cover these costs, and our work group was tasked with developing this report to educate he.

Jun 30th, 2015 - The fifth Jack Pepys Workshop on Asthma in the Workplace focused on the similarities and differences of work-related asthma (WRA) and non-work-related asthma (non-WRA). WRA includes occupational asthma (OA) and work-exacerbated asthma (WEA).

Jul 31st, 2013 - Work-related asthma is a common occupational lung disease. The scope of the Fourth Jack Pepys Workshop that was held in May 2010 went beyond asthma to include discussion of other occupational airway diseases, in particular occupationally related c.

Aug 20th, 2020 - In 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in long-term flooding of 80% of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mold-infested homes gave rise to concerns about increased childhood asthma. To address these concerns, a diverse community-academic partnership used a comm...

Mar 7th, 2020 - Families often struggle to manage their child's asthma. Clinicians caring for children with asthma struggle too as they are tasked with balancing the limited time available in clinic and the need to provide comprehensive care. As a direct conseque...

Dec 11th, 2019 - This document presents the protocol for conducting the Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study in New Orleans, Louisiana. The goal of the HEAL study is to implement and test an Asthma Counselor (AC) intervention program that addres...

Oct 6th, 2019 - Overview Asthma is a clinical syndrome characterized by episodic reversible airway obstruction, increased bronchial reactivity, and airway inflammation. Asthma results from complex interactions among inflammatory cells, their mediators, airway epi...

Jun 12th, 2019 - Objective: Asthma carries a high burden of disease for residents of Puerto Rico. We conducted this study to better understand asthma-related healthcare use and to examine potential asthma triggers.Methods: We characterized asthma-related healthcar...