American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Joins DRIVE4COPD to Raise Awareness of Nation's 4th Leading Cause of ...

The country's newest health initiative, DRIVE4COPD, announced today that it has added the largest association of respiratory therapists - The American Association for Respiratory Care - to its ranks.  The AARC joins DRIVE4COPD, the Official Health Initiative of NASCAR®, and fellow partnering organizations the American Lung Association, COPD Foundation and founding sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim ...

Home care boost for Carlisle lung disease patients

Lung disease patients in Carlisle can now stay out of hospital and be treated closer to home thanks to a new service launched in the city.

Healthbeat Report: The Return of Whooping Cough

A highly contagious illness that seemed to be a problem of the past has made a comeback.

From chronic disease to flu, sprains, and temptations, college health providers offer help

When illness goes to college -- or arises during the stress of it all -- there's help out there.

How Castaway made my life hell

Ten years on, one of the participants in the BBC reality show on why it took him years to recover from the experience Ten years ago I was one of 36 men, women and children recruited to live on the remote Hebridean island of Taransay as part of the Castaway 2000 project for the BBC. It was ambitiously billed as a "bold new experiment for the new millennium" and we were the guinea pigs who'd build ...