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Break for allergic asthma sufferers as 'lifesaving' drug subsidised
Herald Sun The Coalition will spend $5.4 million to make Omalizumab — an injectable medication used to treat severe asthma not controlled by corticosteroid inhalers — available to hundreds of patients across Australia. The drug is used to treat people who … |
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St. Mary's sets asthma camp for kids on spring break
Evansville Courier & Press St. Mary's Health will sponsor Camp Nota-Gona-Wheeze, an asthma camp for children in kindergarten through the fifth grade. The free camp will host 50 students and will run Monday, March 23, through Friday, March 27, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Delaware … |
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How Obesity May Lead To Asthma — And Perhaps How To Break That Link
WBUR This just in from Boston Children's Hospital: The immune system may play a key role in the asthma that can develop along with obesity — and that new understanding may point to possible ways to stop or treat obesity-related asthma. A finding of broad … A treatment for obesity-associated asthma Obesity May Cause Asthma by Altering the Immune System |
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Does Using an Asthma Inhaler Break the Fast?
Onislam.net Does Using an Asthma Inhaler Break the Fast? Question and answer details. Name of Questioner: Mohamed. Reply date: 2013/07/20. Question: I heard two fatwas about using inhaler to relieve asthma attacks during the fasting of Ramadan. One fatwa permits … |
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Should You Take a Summer Break from Asthma Medications?
About – News & Issues It's quite common for people with asthma to feel much better during the summer months, and therefore take a break from their asthma controller medications. Kids are out of school, possibly less active, have fewer respiratory tract infections, and … |
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National plan aims to break down asthma disparities
The Rock River Times WASHINGTON, DC — US federal agencies unveiled the Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities May 31. White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman Nancy Sutley, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) … Health Highlights: June 5, 2012 |
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 Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate |
Clean break for Jade's asthma
Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate WHEN Cowan 11-year-old Jade Naidoo's daily asthma attacks and need for medication reached unbearable levels in 2007, her father was desperate for a solution. Jay Naidoo was concerned with the side effects of the medication and was striving to avoid … |
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Asthmatic 'denied inhalers' over New Year break
Croydon Advertiser A SINGLE mother with asthma has slammed her doctors' surgery which she claims "left her to die" by refusing to give her an inhaler. Kerry Reeves was left without the medicine she so desperately needs for four days over the new year break because her … |
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Medicines break 'a risk to health'
The Press Association A poll of 1000 people found one in five thought it was okay to occasionally stop medicines for a long-term condition such as diabetes or asthma to cleanse their body. Almost one in three people surveyed thought it was fine to take over-the-counter … 'Detoxing' can be harmful Detox myth is putting people at risk of harm, new survey reveals |
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Break out the hankies for ah-ah-choo! autumn
Monessen Valley Independent The eighth-grader from East Liberty recently began breathing treatments for asthma, and this week she went to Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville to undergo a battery of tests for allergies ranging from dust mites to weeds and spores. … |
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