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Asthma and allergy in performing artists and professional voice users

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Allergospace is the website of of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The content is subject to international agreement between European specialists. Registration required for access to professional pages.

Teach Your Patients About Asthma, prepared by National Institutes of Health, USA.

The Asthma Information Center (Dr. Matthias Wjst) A very extensive site on asthma. A lot of it is for professionals, but there is plenty for people who have asthma, and for parents of children with asthma.

Allergy and Asthma Rochester Resource Center. Produced in Rochester, New York. Provides excellent education material for both patients and health professionals. Tackles asthma in depth and has interesting information on a range of other allergy proplems, including latex allergy. Details of Asthmanager, PC program to help people with asthma or their parents to manage their asthma (free demo available). Downloadable USA National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.

The Health Centre. Of major interest to UK health professionals and anyone wishing to develop medical websites, and a wide variety of material for patients and for parents of patients. Covers a wide range of medical topics, not just asthma and allergy. Noticeboard, links to academic sites, and more.

The General Practitioners in Asthma Group A must for General Practitioners with a serious interest in asthma.

The Asthma Research Unit at the Tayside Centre for General Practice Background and research projects at a centre devoted to asthma.

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Asthma and allergy in performing artists and professional voice users

Singers, actors and others who use their voices professionally such as teachers, preachers and politicians, encounter special problems with asthma and its treatment. Not only is breathing an issue in a way it never is for others, but inhaled treatments which don't affect the voice of most people can have a noticeable effect on the voice of a performing artist.

The links and book recommendation on this subject on the general links page are also useful for health professionals.

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Commercial sites for health professionals

Scientific Hospital Supplies have a website with information about the hypoallergenic infant feed Neocate, with easy requesting for reprints of some papers and references on the product.

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Nonspecialist websites for medical professionals

Silver Platter, suppliers of CD-ROMs of MEDLINE and other databases, and suppliers of other educational CD-ROMs, have a website for health professionals. Full use requires a subscription.
Until recently they published a marvellous quarterly CD-ROM with 5 years of MEDLINE data on Allergy and Clinical Immunology. For some reason unknown to me, they have stopped selling this.

WebWorld for Clinicians from Reuters Health Information.

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