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Nemours aims to lower asthma rate
The News Journal With her son being an asthma sufferer, Cain figured keeping him away from the fumes of cleaning products would help him avoid having an attack. That night, however, Amir woke up complaining about a headache. Cain said the fumes had lingered and were … |
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Five-year plan aims to reduce 'asthma burden'
taosnews The council is a coalition of health care organizations dedicated to reducing the disease burden by making significant improvements to the care provided to people with asthma. In New Mexico, asthma affects nearly 200,000 people, one quarter of whom are … |
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Health Fair aims to combat asthma
News 12 Bronx (registration) The fair is working to combat asthma in the borough. (6:43 PM). MOUNT HOPE – The Acacia Health Fair took place today in the Bronx. The fair is working to combat asthma in the borough. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in … |
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Children's Program Aims To Cut The $172 Million Texas Spends On Asthma …
D Healthcare Daily In 2011, the state of Texas spent $172 million on pediatric asthma hospitalizations. Of that, North Texas made up nearly a third: $53.9 million. Those numbers, provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services, indicate that there's plenty of … |
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Study Aims to Curb Asthma Over-Medication
NBC Southern California With 26 million Americans taking asthma medicines at a cost of $150 million a day, a new study seeks to determine how to change the fact that many of those patients are taking too much medicine. Dr. John Mastronarde and his colleagues at Ohio State … |
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Allegheny Health Network Study Aims to Get a Clearer Picture of Asthma Rates
90.5 WESA “We get reports at times from school systems that 50% of the children either have an inhaler at school or their parents send a form back at the beginning of the year saying that their child has asthma. 50%, that's a very high number. We're not sure if … |
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Washington Post |
Children's Hospital aims to cut asthma-related ER visits
Washington Post Three times in one week in September, 13-year-old Ellis Powell struggled to breathe. Three times, his mother called an ambulance and raced the gasping boy to the emergency room. Three times, she prayed for God to “cast that demon out” of her frightened … |
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NIH-Funded Study Aims to Improve Medication Adherence Using Motivational …
Newswise (press release) Each participant in the study receives a smartphone preloaded with an application that uses a reward system to encourage them to proactively take their daily asthma controller medications. They also receive a free data plan (including unlimited talking … |
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New Study Aims To Determine Relation Between Vitamins & Asthma
CBS Local Obesity, living in the city, and being African-American are common risk factors for both vitamin D deficiency and asthma. So is it the vitamin D or some other factor that makes asthma harder to control? That's what this clinical trial is designed to … |
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Program aims to streamline care for asthma patients
Medicine Hat News A new program called Care Pathway, recently unveiled at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, means to ensure young Hatters suffering from asthma will receive the same treatment as those in larger centres. Staff say they have already begun to notice their … |
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