When cold and flu symptoms become unmanageable, patients often find it difficult to get a fast appointment with primary care doctors, whose appointment schedules are frequently full weeks in advance. Yet, cold and flu symptoms rarely merit a visit to the emergency room. The alternative for many of these patients is an urgent care center. … Read more
Doctors in San Antonio, Texas are trying a new test to diagnose asthma. The test, which is called NIOX, MINO, measures the amount of nitric oxide that the patient exhales. Asthmatics tend to exhale higher amounts of nitric oxide because of inflamed airways. Besides determining if a patient has asthma, the test can also determine … Read more