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Treating adult asthma
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include Proventil and
Ventolin (albuterol),
Tbrnalate, Maxair and
Brethaire.
• Anticholinergics - These
drugs allow the immediate
relief of asthma S3Tnptoms by
reducing bronchoconstriction.
This medication is not typi
cally an initial treatment for
asthma. An example is
Atrovent.
• Systemic corticosteroids -
Used to treat acute asthma
attacks or very severe asth
ma. They can be given intra
venously or orally. They are
not intended for long-term
use and can cause serious
side effects if not monitored
properly by a healthcare
provider. Examples include
Medrol, Prelone, Prednisone,
and Methylprednisone.
It is important to note that
regular supervision, support
and education by a qualified
health care provider are
required for all patients with
asthma. The more involved a
patient becomes in their
management, the more likely
he or she is to be able to iden
tify early symptoms and
avoid hospitalizations. Peak
flow monitoring is a very
important and simple way to
monitor changes in airflow
obstruction. It involves
breathing into a small flow
meter and gives a reliable
and reproducible measure of
air flow and airway obstruc
tion. Changes in airflow or
airway obstruction indicate
early asthma and these
symptoms can often be treat
ed before they progress into a
more severe attack. If you or
a loved one has asthma,
make sure you have a peak
flow meter at home and that
you use it!
Only your health care
provider can determine the
appropriate course of treatr
ment to get and keep your
asthma symptoms under con
trol. Talk to your doctor
about medications that are
appropriate for you and about
receiving a peak flow meter
to monitor your airflow and
asthma S5Tnptoms.
Remember, knowledge is
power, but it is what you do
with it that makes aU the dif
ference!
Contribution by Kristy F.
Woods, MD., and Aisha
Bobcombe, BA.
For more information about the
Maya Angelou Research Center
on Minority Health, visit our web
site at www.wfubmc.edu/minority-
health. Or, for health information
call (336) 713.7578.
Your Life.
Your Paper, ;
Your Post
Atlanta, Morehouse College
welcome home MLK papers
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help of more than 50 corpo
rate, government and private
donors.
Morehouse College owns
the papers. Archivists have
been organizing the collec
tion, including hundreds of
books with scribble-filled
margins and numerous ser
mons and writings.
“It was here that he was
introduced to the ideas that
would form the basis for his
philosophy on nonviolence,”
said Morehouse College
President Walter Massey.
“Because of the pivotal role of
Morehouse ... we believe
there is no better place in the
world for these papers to
reside.”
King’s nephew, Isaac
Newton Farris, represented
the King family at Monday’s
announcement.
“This was truly my Aimt
Coretta’s initial vision, for the
papers to be housed here,” he
said.
Cell phones part of fashion
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Ovum.
“These things have a 70- to
80-percent profit margin.
They’re a real moneymaker,”
he said. “And it’s growing
rapidly because Americans
see cell phones more and
more as items for self expres
sion.”
Sprint has teamed up with
Dooney & Burke to offer purs
es that take the place of cell
phone cases—an Italian croc
odile leather wristlet was list
ed at $124.99 on the Sprint
Web site.
A few bucks can buy a
charm featuring Hello Kitty,
Sponge Bob, the SuperGirl
logo or other designs at a
Claire’s accessory shop or one
of many Internet sites.
“We see girls decorating
their phones and, a week
later, they take everything off
and decorate it differently,”
said Chuck Strottman, direc
tor of marketing for Tween
Brands Inc., based in the
Columbus suburb of 'New
Albany.
The kid-sized, oval Firefly
Mobile phone sold well last
holiday season at Tween-
Brands’ Limited Tbo stores,
which market to girls ages 7
to 14, he said. Girls can
change the phone’s look with
patterned, translucent and
glow-in-the dark shells.
Accessory sales—especially
charms, stickers, faceplates—
account for about 10 percent
of business at Adam AnoHk’s
Wireless Zone store in
Philadelphia. He said popular
logos are of the Philadelphia
Eagles and other sports teams
and fashion brands such as
Baby Phat.
Another big seller is the
$125 BMng Ring kit that fea
tures high-priced Swarovski
brand crystals. For an addi
tional $100 to $300, the store
will do the designing-attach
ing hundreds of the small,
round crystals to the phone,
often in a pattern: initials,
numbers or stripes.
Some women buy the kits
for bridesmaid gifts, and
men—who are more drawn to
black crystals—also are buy
ing into the trend, AnoHk said.
Marcia Murphy, of
Delaware in central Ohio, dec
orated her leather cell phone
case with pink and silver
removable adhesive sequins
to match her pink Motorola
MOTORAZR phone.
Murphy’s daughters, ages 10
and 11, also used the sequins
to decorate the case for the
cell phone they share.
“Anything for bling, as far
as thej^re concerned,” said
Murphy, 44. “I guess Fm a lit
tle bit for bhng as well.”
Thom Richmond, director
of handset product develop
ment for Disney Mobile,
based in North HoUjnvood,
Calif., credits Nokia as lead
ing the way with mobile
phone fashion accessories by
introducing faceplates in the
mid-1990s.
At the close of 2005, there
were about 208 million wire
less subscribers in the United
States, representing about 69
percent of the population,
according to data collected by
CTIA—The Wireless
Association trade group.
Worldwide, wireless sub
scriptions hit 2 billion by the
end of 2005, according to
Informa Tblecoms & Media
research group.
Handset vendors are now,
pushing fashion as a way to
differentiate themselves in a
crowded market, said Avi
Greengart of the research
firm Current Analysis Inc.
But carriers were slow to see
beyond technology imtil the
Motorola MOTORAZR saw
success in pulling in sub
scribers, showing that cus
tomers were seeking more
attractive handsets and were
willing to pay a lot more for
them.
Consumers in the United
States are well behind
Europeans and Asians in
picking up on the fashion
accessories trend, Greengart
said.
“People don’t take their
phones and decorate them,
they buy stylish phones to
begin with,” he said. “That’s
not the fashionable thing to
do here, at least not yet.”
Strother said accessories in
the United States tend to be
technology—such as the bat
tery that lasts longer without
a recharge—or legislation
driven, such as the handsfree
devices required for drivers in
some states.
But analysts say fashion is
starting to carry the same
weight as ftmction when it
comes to choosing the phone.
“Right now, I would say
fashion trumps technology,
two years ago technology
trumped fashion,” Entner
said. “Basically one catches
up with the other. Probably
two years from now technolo
gy -will trump fashion.”
Disney targeted mothers
and girls ages 7 to 14 with its
new line of phones and acces
sories, attempting a more
sophisticated approach to
popular characters, said
Vince Peterson, senior art
director at Disney Mobile. On
one case the profile of Mickey
Mouse is embossed in black
leather. There’s also a leather
and suede case with an
embossed initial D.
“We’re trying to be trendy
and have the accessories be
fashion forward,” Peterson
said. “Cell phones really are a
fashion accessory.”
Virgirl Jenkins, 33, of
Columbus, who works for a
car insurance company, said
he chose his Nextel i870
“equally for the way it looks
and what it does.”
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