Asthma probe

Quesstions are being raised about an asthma study in Barbados in 2002, involving children and using a modified version of the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Peter Heimlich, son of Dr Henry Heimlich, who made famous the life-saving technique used on choking victims, has been investigating the Barbados study with a view to finding out if legal and ethical guidelines were followed.
Since 2002 Heimlich has been carrying out extensive research and criticizing his father’s work, raising doubts as to whether his father actually developed the Heimlich manoeuvre.
He told the SUNDAY?SUN that medical experts had expressed “strong doubts” about his father’s theory that the technique could stop asthma attacks, pointing out that his father, now 92, had not worked in a hospital setting since 1996 when he was fired from a hospital in Cincinnati.