1.   And Bettis has become a national spokesman for the Asthma All-Stars, a group of athletes with asthma who encourage asthma patients to lead productive lives despite asthma dangers.

2.   And some asthma patients can switch from oral steroids to the inhaled form, which is not absorbed as readily throughout the body.

3.   Asthma patients will stream into his pulmonology clinic, complaining that they cannot catch their breath.

4.   At the University of Tennessee at Memphis, Dr. Julie Johnson, Dr. John Lima and their colleagues obtained similar results in a study of asthma patients.

5.   Five minutes away at a clinic for asthma patients, a counterconference, Public Eye on Davos, is also set.

6.   For example, pharmacists say they have not been able to buy enough Beclovent, an inhaled corticosteroid for asthma patients.

7.   Hospital staff taught doctors a new way to reach young asthma patients and their parents, using an easy-to-understand, hand-size chart.

8.   In the CIGNA clinics, where doctors are employed by the company, they pulled patient records to find patterns for hospitalization of asthma patients.

9.   Inhaled steroids are not recommended for patients with the mildest form of asthma, who account for about half of all asthma patients.

10.   It is taken four times a day to reduce the inflammation, swelling, mucus secretion and tightening of the muscles around the airway often seen in asthma patients.