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Asthma hospital admissions have fallen by 76 per cent since Open Airways began its education programme two decades ago. But the condition remains the leading cause for trips to the emergency room, with a total of 1,871 visits last year telling the c...

A local organisation aimed at improving the lives of islanders living with asthma has some new superhero support to help spread their message. Two vans operated by Open Airways — one recently donated by The Bermuda End to End — now sports the likene...

Asthma charity Open Airways will be hosting events on three days this week to help sufferers learn how to manage their condition. “Do you have an asthma action plan?” is the theme of World Asthma Day, which falls tomorrow and sees Bermuda join about...

Leading asthma experts from Bermudian charity Open Airways have presented their model for treating the condition to an international health forum. A four-strong team travelled to Boston this month after being invited to speak at The Boston Children’s...

Julee Smith is considered a hero, of sorts, at Westgate Correctional Facility. About 15 per cent of the inmates suffer from asthma; the nurse recently took a course to better help them out. “In nursing school there was only a chapter or two on asthma...

A new school year brings special challenges for the 2,000 children in Bermuda with asthma. The disease is the main reason why students miss classes, according to Open Airways. The asthma charity yesterday offered the following tips for keeping childr...

Health Minister Jeanne Atherden formally marked World Asthma Day yesterday during a ceremony at City Hall. More than 9,000 Bermudians suffer from the sometimes life-threatening condition, including one in five children. Ms Atherden said that the cond...

Schoolchildren and medical experts will gather on the steps of City Hall in Hamilton tomorrow to mark World Asthma Day. The annual event, which is marked in more than 80 countries around the world, is aimed at improving asthma awareness and care thro...

Asthma, it’s a common illness that’s not always so well managed. Part of the problem is that people don’t take advantage of all the knowledge on hand, believes paediatrician Richard Fulton. He and other experts will observe World Asthma Day on the st...

Asthma sufferers visited the Emergency Department at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital more than 2,000 times last year. It needn’t be so. According to asthma charity Open Airways, each of those visits signals an asthma management plan that has faile...

A nine-year-old boy has been commended for his quick-thinking after he rushed to the aid of a youngster who was suffering an asthma attack. Donovan Dyer-Trott was one of nearly 150 students taking part in the interschool cross country race at the Nat...

Going back to school in September is an exciting and busy time for both students and parents. However if you are the parent of a child with asthma it is important to be prepared. The start of the school year is known to bring a sharp rise in the numb...