For health care professionals, EPR--Update 2002 provides timely and updated information on several priority asthma topics covered in 1997's Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. The priority topics addressed include medications, including corticosteroids' role in long term asthma management in children, combination therapy, monitoring and prevention, and modifications to the EPR's Stepwise Approach for Managing Asthma. NIH Publication No. 03-5074, 129 pages.