Word: asthma
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...thinking there's nowhere to go but up - is muted, yielding few emotional revelations, seemingly sedated here. Except for one pungent confrontation at the UN between Guevara and ambassadors from other Latin American countries, Che is defined less by his rigorous fighting skills and seductive intellect than by his asthma...
...still go do karaoke all the time? No, not nearly as much. In my twenties when I first moved to New York, we would go almost every other weekend. It was pretty ridiculous for a while. But in the last few years it's died off. I actually developed asthma a few years ago so that's made it kind of uncomfortable. Sometimes when I sing now, I feel like I'm going to pass...
...course, while famous epidemics have killed more people than world wars, there’s little chance that getting vaccinated will save your life. Complications are common only in the elderly, small children, and people with chronic medical conditions like asthma or diabetes...
Misdiagnosis goes both ways, however. Underdiagnosis and undermedication of asthma can also be dangerous and even life-threatening, according to Edelman: "There are still 4,000 deaths each year, mostly from underdiagnosis...
...best advocates for patients diagnosed with asthma are the patients themselves, says Aaron. If you suspect that you may have been misdiagnosed, ask your doctor to run some pulmonary tests or pursue a different course of treatment. As Aaron says, "The danger of misdiagnosis is that it's a missed opportunity to figure out what's truly wrong with the patient...