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Asthma and its treatments

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Brief overview of asthma physiology and available treatments.

Posted on August 4, 2016

This video presents a brief overview of asthma physiology and the treatments available. Asthma is a chronic disease that currently affects more than 3 million Canadians. There is no cure for asthma but there are various treatment methods such as reliever inhalers, preventer inhalers and nebulizers.

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