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Allegheny County offers help to Northgate students with asthma
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Nearly 20 percent of students in the Northgate School District due east of Neville Island have asthma, which is among the highest rates in Allegheny County. So the county Health Department is launching a program, in association with the Healthy Homes … |
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In Allegheny County, school nurses on the front line of student asthma
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Annie Johnson, a nurse at Wilkins Elementary in Wilkins, helps students deal with asthma pretty much every day. Sometimes, it's as easy as handing them their inhalers after gym. For more serious attacks, she has them sit down and stare at a hologram … |
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Asthma study aided by Pitt, Allegheny Health eyes acetaminophen link
Tribune-Review “I don't think the entire asthma epidemic is due to Tylenol. But I think it may have significantly contributed,” said McBride, a vice chairman at Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio who found “incredible consistency” in reported patterns of acetaminophen … |
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Asthma study aided by Pitt, Allegheny Health Network eyes acetaminophen link
Tribune-Review But I think it may have significantly contributed,” said McBride, a vice chairman at Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio who found “incredible consistency” in reported patterns of acetaminophen use and bad asthma symptoms. “I just think it's important … |
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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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Allegheny General gets $415000 grant
Pittsburgh Business Times Dr. Deborah Gentile, director of research in the division of allergy, asthma and immunology at AGH, is the principal investigator. The project is intended to develop the most efficient ways of measuring and tracking asthma among the region's … |
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Highlands' Kendric Moore battles asthma trouble during 2-1 day at Allegheny …
Tribune-Review The scene and sensation at the end of Kendric Moore's final match Friday at the Allegheny County Wrestling Championships struck the Highlands senior 120-pounder as all too familiar. Moore picked himself up off the mat after an 18-6 loss in the … |
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Allegheny General Hospital and the Breathe Project Present "The Air We Breathe …
MarketWatch (press release) Local and national asthma experts will convene in Pittsburgh May 16 in recognition of World Asthma Month for "The Air We Breathe: A Regional Summit on Asthma and the Environment," a day-long event designed to raise awareness about the growing incidence … |
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Parent urges East Allegheny board to bring nurse back
Pittsburgh Post Gazette The fourth-grader must be placed on a nebulizer machine, which blows warm mist and medicine into his lungs, within about one minute of the start of an asthma attack. When he has an attack, he can't breathe in enough air for a simple … |
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