asthma

hey guys. How are you? I'm currently a med student , but i plan on opening a free of charge COPD clinic . I just think those patients don't get enough treatment options to manage their life. I'm passionate about doing it , once i graduate and have the funds. i Haven't been able to find chest...

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FYI to people wanting to work in the military post-dental school. If you have asthma (like me), you are more then likely not going to be able to. I spoke to a recruiter on the phone and he said I may be able to get it waived after telling them I played NCAA hockey and that my asthma is mild, so...

I've been doing the old NBMEs and came across a question of which pathway to inhibit for severity reduction. The key and some other posts say 5-lipoxygenase inhibition. Zileuton makes sense but wouldn't steroid inhibition of phospholipase a2 be a better answer?

Hello! I understand the basic difference between allergies (type I hypersensitivities) in a general sense. But my question is...is there much of a difference in terms of pathogenesis? It seems to me as though they are both IgE/Mast Cell mediated, by the release of histamine (and other...