 Asthma inhalers are now coming GPS navigators that could soon help map lung disease danger zones.
The project, which is now in the early stages, is aimed at collecting statistical data on precise times and locations in which asthma sufferers have to use their inhalers. Scientists with enough information will be able to map danger zones and monitor their development, giving asthmatics an early warning.
Now David Van Sickle, a scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is working with students on the technical side of the project.
Sickle said, "It will allow us to better target public-health interventions to the places and times when people are really suffering." He is expecting that in time the effort will help researchers discover exactly why people suffer from asthma.
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Posted On : 14 Apr 09
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