Asthma Podcasts and Intrerviews

Podcasting is a way to share information through MP3 audio files. Podcasts are downloaded, shared, and subscribed to using an MP3 player.

It takes more time to read articles than to listen to the best blogposts or articles while sitting in a traffic jam or exercising.

Click here for an extended, constantly updated list of medical podcasts.

Allergy and Asthma Relief Podcast

• Creator: Dr. Richard Gower
• Description: "This podcast, offers information on the best ways to keep allergies from affecting your summer vacation plans."

Asthma UK

• Creator: Asthma UK
• Description: "Every month we'll provide research updates, events information, asthma advice and fundraising ideas from Asthma UK."

CDC Asthma Podcasts

• Creator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Description: Here you can check all asthma-related audio and video podcasts persented by the CDC.

MUSC Health Audio Podcasts

• Creator: Creators of podcasts are listed here
• Description: "Brought to you by the Medical University of South Carolina, these podcasts deal with a wide range of issues related to children's health. Topics include autism, childhood obesity, diabetes in children, children's heart health, and vaccinations, just to name a few:"
  • Asthma: The Treatment of Asthma
  • Asthma: What is Asthma?
  • Asthma: When Hospitalization is required

Brigham and Women's Hospital - Asthma Podcast

• Creator: Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)
• Description: "Severe, difficult-to-treat asthma remains a serious medical problem even in the current age of effective asthma therapies. In this Asthma Grand Rounds presentation, Dr. Bruce Levy – member of Partners Asthma Center and of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division and Co-Director of the Medical Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital – discusses the lipid mediators called lipoxins and the role that they play in promoting resolution of inflammation. He shares the results of his research demonstrating a deficiency of lipoxins in severe asthma."