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Condition: Asthma
Intervention: Behavioral: Parent-to-parent mentoring
Sponsors: InquisitHealth, Inc.; National Institutes of Health (NIH); Montefiore Medical Center; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Washington University School of Medicine; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Recruiting – verified April 2016
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Washington Post |
In a city with so much childhood asthma, why are officials planning to house homeless kids next to a bus garage?
Washington Post Washington is a city that wheezes. It has one of the highest rates of asthma in the country. Those who suffer from the disease cluster in the city's poorest communities, where asthmatic children are 10 times more likely to visit the emergency room than … Lancaster County has some of the worst soot pollution in the United States. Butler County air quality: Not the worst, but not great either New air quality report card gives snapshot of Michigan cities |
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Washington Post |
DC has one of the nation's highest childhood asthma rates. So why is the city planning to house homeless kids next …
Washington Post Washington is a city that wheezes. It has one of the highest rates of asthma in the country. Those who suffer from the disease cluster in the city's poorest communities, where asthmatic children are 10 times more likely to visit the emergency room than … Lancaster County has some of the worst soot pollution in the United States. Butler County air quality: Not the worst, but not great either New air quality report card gives snapshot of Michigan cities |
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Arizona Daily Star |
Alt-fuel buses take aim at childhood asthma
Arizona Daily Star Four alternative fuel buses are taking kids to and from Tucson-area schools, which officials hope will reduce air pollution and even kids' asthma. Tucson Clean Cities, a Pima Association of Governments program, received a $150,000 grant to replace six … |
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The State |
Is childhood asthma overdiagnosed?
The State But the journal authors say that a diagnosis of asthma has been trivialized, with inhalers given out too freely. They add that asthma's “hallmark” – wheezing – is used imprecisely and that more objective evidence is needed before a diagnosis is made. |
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Greenville News |
Is childhood asthma overdiagnosed?
Greenville News When cross-country runner Baptiste Lemaire developed a problem breathing, his doctor ordered some tests and concluded he had asthma. The teenager, who attends the French Bilingual School in Greenville, was given an asthma inhaler, which he used for … |
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Science Daily |
Childhood asthma overdiagnosed, argue leading respiratory doctors
Science Daily Doctors are overdiagnosing asthma, with inhalers frequently dispensed for no good reason, to the point that they have "almost become a fashion accessory," argue two leading respiratory doctors in a leading article published online in the Archives of … |
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Packet Online |
HEALTH MATTERS: Develop a plan to deal with childhood asthma
Packet Online Once diagnosed, asthma is typically treated with two kinds of medicines: long-term control medicines to prevent symptoms and quick-relief medicines to stop asthma symptoms when they occur. There are a variety of medications available, and they can come … |
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Medscape |
Specialists Say Childhood Asthma Is Overdiagnosed
Medscape In an article published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, two respiratory specialists claim that doctors are overdiagnosing asthma in children, with inhalers being prescribed needlessly. According to Asthma UK, 1.1 million children … Asthma inhalers given out almost as a 'fashion accessory', experts warn Are doctors overdiagnosing asthma? Asthma inhalers handed out like fashion accessories, doctors warn |
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Conditions: Asthma; Childhood Asthma
Interventions: Behavioral: PEF Feedback; Behavioral: Control Feedback
Sponsors: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Not yet recruiting – verified March 2016
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