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sundayherald

April 21, 2008 UK

SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH asthma could be taught a breathing technique used to help with symptoms of the condition after a trial in schools found it helped to reduce absence rates.

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Doctors start Everest medical tests

20 April 2007, UK

BBC News

The Caudwell Xtreme Everest team from University College London plan to examine the effects of oxygen deprivation on the human body - a critical problem for patients in intensive care...Oxygen treatment hope Dr Mike Grocott said: "Low oxygen levels are pretty much a universal feature of patients who are very sick...."We would hope to be able look, in a few years' time, to developing treatments that allow people who are critically ill to use oxygen more efficiently."

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Healthy finances by Nitin Sawhne

16 February 2007

Guardian Unlimited

Novartis are attempting to prevent imitation drugs being sold on at cut prices in India, showing that drug companies are about profit, not cure.

As an asthmatic, I remember watching the BBC's Panorama programme a few years ago, which featured a comparative investigation into the relative benefits of a breathing technique known as "Buteyko" against conventional drugs....My surprise was exacerbated by the fact that there had been little or no further investigation or formal experimentation pursued after encouraging statistics favouring Buteyko. The programme strongly suggested that it simply would not be in the interest of pharmaceutical companies to finance any potential cures for illnesses that were not related to tangible medication. Basically, drug companies are about profit, not cure.

Following this programme, I have used a combination of breathing techniques, exercise and drugs to help my asthma. Having heard about pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Pfizer taking legal action in India and the Philippines against those wishing to supply cheaper imitation drugs to the masses, I was again reminded that curing sickness is not necessarily their primary concern - at least, not for the poor....

11th December 2006

YOU magazine

Having asthma is "pretty annoying", says William, aged 10, who has had the condition since he was six. "It’s stopped me doing things I wanted to, like playing football. Quite often, I had to come off the pitch because I couldn’t breathe...

21 August 2006

Houston Chronicle - United States

Drugs lead to rebound headaches
... I was thrilled to discover the Buteyko breathing method through Teresa Hale's book "Breathing Free." I went off the Flonase just before learning about the ...

June 5th  2006

StaffNurse.com - UK

Breathing Techniques Ease Asthma
... Some specific breathing techniques have been developed, such as the Buteyko method, which proponents say can help relieve asthma. ...