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San Bernardino County is offering home asthma support
Redlands Daily Facts The county Department of Public Health offers a home visitation program that gives families tools to make children's asthma attacks less frequent and less scary. CARE—Coordinated Asthma Referral and Education—is funded by a grant from the South Coast … |
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Emergency room visits spike for children in California with asthma
San Bernardino County Sun Children in California increasingly are flocking to emergency rooms for treatment of asthma, despite millions of dollars spent on programs to control the disease. Statewide, the rates of ER visits for asthma symptoms rose by about 18 percent for … |
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Breathmobiles bring asthma care to neighborhoods across the Inland Empire
San Bernardino County Sun Nancy Glaab, licensed vocational nurse, talks with patients outside one of San Bernardino County's two Breathmobiles during its visit to Simpson Elementary School in Rialto on Wednesday. The Breathmobiles aim to reduce ER visits related to asthma. As more children with asthma visit emergency rooms, Breathmobiles gasp for … |
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Mother and son living with dirty air and asthma: Guest commentary
San Bernardino Sun Thanks to the poor air quality, I, my son and nearly 1.5 million people in and near San Bernardino County have suffered or currently suffer from asthma and respiratory problems. In our Inland Empire neighborhood, kids are twice as likely to suffer from … Climb & Fight for Air |
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San Bernardino County home to high number of asthma sufferers
Desert Dispatch He said asthma symptoms include shortness of breath, audible wheezing, nasal flaring or if a person is experiencing an inward chest or strain to abdominal muscles in order to breathe. Levy said some asthma cases in children are onset through secondhand … |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Asthma Awareness Month celebrations set
Press-Enterprise Asthma is one of the most common serious chronic diseases of childhood, and San Bernardino County has one of the highest numbers of children with asthma in the state. In addition, asthma is a leading cause of hospital emergency department visits and … More than 20 people in Northern Ireland die from asthma annually World Asthma Day Marks the Start of Asthma Awareness Month Asthma Northern Ireland highlights fatal attack risks |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Free home asthma visits available
Press-Enterprise The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health offers free home visits to some families to identify their children's asthma triggers. Asthma causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow, leading to wheezing, shortness of breath, … |
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Arrowhead Regional Medical Center expands Breathmobile service to High Desert
San Bernardino Sun By Jim Steinberg, The (San Bernardino County) Sun Nancy Glaab LVN, right, explains asthma treatment to a family at the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Breath Mobile in Fontana last week, with volunteer Slenea Strohl, right. |
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Smart growth is healthy growth
San Bernardino Sun As a pediatrician, I see first-hand the negative health impacts of sprawl development on our children, whose asthma is worsened by air pollution caused by too much driving. Medical professionals have known that cities designed primarily around driving … |
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Low-income communities around San Bernardino rail yard targeted for health study
Los Angeles Times Southern California air quality regulators are sponsoring an in-depth study to determine if the San Bernardino rail yard, a major inland hub of goods shipped across the US, has caused a rise in cancer and asthma in the neighboring low-income … |
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