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Help for Seniors on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Posted on Web
The Website produced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide useful information on health specifically for seniors citizens continues to increase its content. Today, NIHSeniorHealth.gov adds information about the diagnosis and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the fourth leading cause of [...]

RTs in politics!
Flott to run for House seat
Respiratory therapist Darren Flott announced that he’s making another bid to represent District 98 in the Alabama House of Representatives.
Flott, 40, ran for the position in 2002, losing to the longtime incumbent in a runoff.
The candidate, who said he lives in Eight Mile, is director of the respiratory [...]

An RT job board with RSS feeds? That’s kinda cool and strange.
Respiratory Therapist Jobs
The US Federal Government has the following 8 Respiratory Therapist Job openings.
Check this page often for the latest Respiratory Therapist job openings or subscribe to our Respiratory Therapist Jobs XML feeds.
I get a fair amount of hits because my RT resume at [...]

In my quest to find RT mentioning blogs I found this December webMD post about Respiratory Therapists. I like the bit about RT being in the basement. That was true of several hospitals I worked at, but by no means all.
If you are new to a community and have asthma or COPD and want to [...]

Scary stuff.

Ground zero workers die from breathing debris laden air – The Cardio Blog
Workers who helped with clean up at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks are being plagued with health problems ranging from respiratory disease to heart failure. James Zadroga, Timothy Keller and Felix Hernandez all worked at the site in various capacities. They [...]

This is an interesting use of the net to give patients information about how hospitals work. I know many times we would be understaffed and be working extra hard, but RTs generally work as teams and can call in one or two people and the slack will get picked up. Nurse staffing is much more [...]

This is interesting. I had not heard that you could deliver insulin in a nebulized / aerosolized form. Intriguing. Pulmonary insulin delivery – which products will triumph?
The big companies currently pioneering pulmonary delivery of insulin are Pfizer, Eli Lilly/Alkermes and Novo Nordisk/Aradigm.Leading the pack is Exubera, which Pfizer now owns after buying the rights off [...]

If passed, will pays less for home O2…
WHSV | One Act, One Less Breath
An act of Congress could take many people’s breath away, literally. A section of the “Deficit Reduction Act of 2005″ will force patients who are on home oxygen to foot more of the bill. Currently, Medicare pays for the machine, supplies, and [...]

Former President Gerald Ford is getting some RT care for his pneumonia:
thedesertsun.com | Doctors to decide if Ford can go home
Doctors are “currently in the process of assessing” former President Gerald Ford to see if the 92-year-old can leave Eisenhower Medical Center, his chief of staff said this morning.
Ford has been in the Rancho Mirage [...]

Avian Flu May Be the Next Pandemic (site also has video of this talk)
A deadly influenza outbreak may be on the horizon. Since 1997, a strain of avian flu known as H5N1 has spread rapidly among birds in East Asia, reaching as far north as Siberia. If this strain, which has killed 55 percent of [...]