Health Associations
Hospital Resources
Miscellaneous Resources
Health Associations
Canada
- Canadian Lung Association, www.lung.ca
- Canadian Paediatric Society, www.cps.ca
- Canadian Pharmacists Association, www.cdnpharm.ca
- Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, www.cshp.ca
- Asthma Society of Canada, www.asthmasociety.com
- Canadian Network for Asthma Care, www.cnac.net
- Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, csaci.medical.org
- Canadian Thoracic Society, www.lung.ca/cts/
- Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists, www.csrt.com
- Allergy/Asthma Information Association, www.calgaryallergy.ca/index.html
Canadian Associations without a Website
- National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Foundation, (902) 533-3566
- Family Physician Asthma Group of Canada, (905) 883-1100
International
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Allergy and Asthma Network / Mothers of Asthmatics (USA), www.aanma.org
- American Lung Association, www.lungusa.org
- The Australian Lung Foundation - LungNet, www.lungnet.org.au
- European Federation of Asthma and Allergy Associations, www.efanet.org
- Global initiative for asthma, www.ginasthma.com
A project conducted in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,NIH, and the World Health Organization
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute - Lung information (USA),
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- National Asthma Council (Australia) ,
www.national asthma.org.au/index/htm
Hospital Resources
Canada
International
Miscellaneous Resources
- The Asthma Centre Online, www.asthmacenter.com
- The Breathing Space, www.combivent.com
- A COPD site for patients and their families, friends and health care professionals
- Medmall, www.rain.org/~medmall/specialties/asthma/index.html
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, www.aaaai.org
- GP?s in Asthma Group (GPIAG), http://134.36.34.6/GPIAG/
- Reviews, http://134.36.34.6/GPIAG/JVol5No2/Reviews.htm
Includes:
- The contribution primary care (general practice) has made to asthma care in the past twenty years
- The differential diagnosis of COPD and asthma
- Inhalation devices used in the treatment of asthma)
- International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium (IPAC), www.ipacmdi.com
- "Your metered dose inhaler will be changing"
- Respiratory Disease
- The Metered-Dose Inhaler
- Ozone-Friendly Alternatives to CFCs
- The Reformulation of MDIs
- Meeting the needs of the Patient
- Journal of the American Medical Association, Asthma Information Centre, http://jama.ama-assn.org/
- European Community Strategy For The Phaseout of CFCs in Metered Dose Inhalers, europa.eu.int/comm/dg11/ozone/mdi_strat.htm
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Essential Use Exemptions and Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs), www.epa.gov/docs/spdpublc/mdi/mdi.html
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