ABSTRACT

Asthma is a well-characterized immune response that targets the lung. Our understanding of the condition has evolved from the simple manifestations of airway reactivity with cough, wheezing,

Although primary care physicians have a full array of pharmacological therapies available in a classic step-care structure, these treatments of course have their attendant side effects. Fortunately, there is now a good body of basic and clinical research showing how nutritional and environmental

nonpharmacological interventions that can be both preventive and therapeutic.