Government
AMA supports asthma drugs in schools
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Dec. 27, 2004
Nineteen states have not passed legislation letting asthmatic children carry their own inhalers in school, and the American Medical Association is trying to get them to do so.
The need for children to be able to self-medicate for asthma received a recent boost from President Bush's signing of the Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment and Health Management Act of 2004. Individual states nevertheless must complete the process by approving their own laws, the House of Delegates said.
State medical societies could be helpful in getting legislatures to act on the issue, several delegates said.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/12/27/gvbf1227.htm.
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