Asthma in the Blogosphere

A blog is a website with regular entries commonly organized in a reverse chronological order. Blogs can provide content and express opinion on healthcare that you can never find in a medical paper.



Webicina only shows you blogs from the best quality. We highlight if the blog:

• ...is accredited by HONcode (Health on the Net Foundation) which is a non-profit international organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use.




• ...meets the rules of The Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics (HBCE) which aims to give the readers of a medical blogger a clear idea of the standards by which the blog is maintained and to give bloggers a clear set of guidelines they can show employers, patients, or other concerned parties as to the nature of the blogging.




• And all the blogs comply with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ) rules. This US law defines in 18 identifiers what a medical blogger should never mention when writing about a patient's case.

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About.com Asthma Blog

• Author: Pat Bass
• Description: About.com Guide to Asthma
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Allergy Notes: Asthma

• Author: Vesselin Dimov, MD, a Board-certified Internist, Allergy and Immunology Fellow, Former Cleveland Clinic Assistant Professor of Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine Advisory Panel Member
• Description: Allergy, Asthma & Immunology News Updated Daily by a former Cleveland Clinic Assistant Professor
• Quality: Accredited ny HONcode.

Asthma Mom

• Author: Amy Anaruk
• Description: "Learning more about how to treat asthma helps, and so does talking to other parents who are trying to find their way, too. With this survival guide, I hope you can do both."
• Quality: It has been updated regularly since 2007 and is a member of Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics.

Asthma UK Blog

• Author: Asthma UK
• Description: "Improving the health and well-being of people with asthma by building and sharing expertise about asthma."
• Quality: "Asthma UK is the charity dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the 5.4 million people in the UK whose lives are affected by asthma."

Dr. Neil Kao (The Allergy Dude's) Allergy and Asthma Website

• Creator: Neil Kao, M.D., Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
• Description: "This website contains information I have found to improve the care of patients with allergic diseases, such as allergic rhinitis (hay fever), chronic sinusitis (sinus infections), asthma, atopic dermatitis (allergic eczema), urticaria (hives) and angioedema, food allergies, allergic reactions to insect stings, and anaphylaxis (life threatening allergic reactions)."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

EverydayHealth Allergy and Asthma Blog

• Author: Clifford Bassett, MD
• Description: Dr. B's Allergy and Asthma Guide
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

NHS Choices - Asthma Blog

• Author: NHS Choices talk
• Description: The asthma blog is written by people living with asthma and caring for those with asthma. They discuss their symptoms, treatment and life with the condition.
• Quality: NHS Choices is committed to the highest editorial and ethical standards in the provision of all its content and related services. Details here.

The Angry Asthma Mama

• Author: Aimee
• Description: "Working mother of 3 asthmatic boys - two of whom are also on the autism spectrum - tries to make it all work, keep her monkeys healthy, and figure out the cause of (and solution to) the asthma and autism epidemics. Because being the working mother of 3 just wasn't ENOUGH work."
• Quality: It has been regularly updated since 2004.