Information for Health Professionals

Information from medical journals and articles by healthcare professionals relating to the Buteyko breathing technique. Read feedback on Buteyko from medical professionals here. Go to Clinical Trials section...

Ultimately, medicine has a single aim: to relieve human suffering. When measured against this benchmark, different therapies can be seen as either effective or ineffective rather than 'orthodox' or 'unorthodox'. No single professional group has ownership of health, and the best healthcare requires a multidisciplinary approach. Thus there is an imperative for all healthcare professionals to work together for the benefit of their patients and the wider community Professor Marc Cohen   MBBS(Hons), PhD, BMed Sci(Hons), FAMAC Australasian Integrative Medicine Association

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Does the World's Bestselling Asthma Drug Sometimes Kill the Patients it is Supposed to Help?

Are Asthma Medications and Management Related to Deaths from Asthma?
Abramson MJ et al and the Victorian Asthma Mortality Study Group AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE VOL 163 2001

Buteyko Breathing Technique for asthma: an effective intervention
Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 12-December-2003, Vol 116 No 1187

Cardiovascular Disease and Health-Care Utilization in Snorers: a Population Survey
Andrea Dunai, MD, Andras P. Keszei, MD, PhD, Maria S. Kopp, MD,PhD, Colin M. Shapiro, MBBCh, PhD, FRCPC, Istvan Mucsi, MD, PhD, Marta Novak, MD, PhD SLEEP Volume 31, Issue 03, Pages 411-416

Buteyko Fact Sheet from Asthma Foundation

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Beta Agonists & Asthma
Summary of risks from the use of Long Acting Beta Agonists (LABA) with comment from doctors at Gisborne Hospital and links to NZMJ discussion.

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