He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Rubin, a graduate of Columbia College and New York Medical College interned in New York at Mt. Sinai Hospital and took specialty training in internal medicine at Beth Israel and an Allergy Fellowship at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. Asthma and allergies often go hand in hand. People with asthma usually always have allergies. Taking the time to understand these conditions better helps one manage them.
Breakthroughs are on the horizon for the medical management of allergies.
Signs of asthma include wheezing, shortness of breath and tightness of the chest. Other signs are also uncontrollable coughing or a persistent cough at night. During exercise, breathing may also become difficult. The severity of symptoms varies from attack to attack. Emotions may trigger asthma which already exists.