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The Detroit News |
Detroit has some of America's highest asthma rates. (Photo: Ankur Dholakia …
The Detroit News We want to applaud The Detroit News for shining a light on the problem of childhood asthma in Detroit in your recent article, “Health providers target Detroit's child asthma woes.”) The tragedy of asthma is not only that it limits the lives of so many … |
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Detroit Free Press |
Asthma? Diabetes? This insurer wants to talk to you
Detroit Free Press Consumers Mutual wants your diabetes and heart disease. It wants to help you manage your asthma, drive down that high blood pressure and control your cholesterol. The East Lansing-based company is the newcomer to Michigan's health insurance world … |
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The Detroit News |
Health providers target Detroit's child asthma woes
The Detroit News But promising projects are underway to combat childhood asthma in Detroit, such as home visits by asthma educators like Elizabeth Milton, who teaches preventive measures to Micheal's mom, Cassandra Debrowsky, while providing the moral support often … |
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The Detroit News |
Polluters to blame for Detroit asthma rates
The Detroit News Cheyante Elum, 29, helps Kenneth Moore Jr. 6, with his inhaler. Moore has developed asthma. Residents in the 48217 area code are angry at all the pollution caused by Marathon Oil and other polluting companies. The area of Southwest Detroit, Ecorse and … |
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Roaches may protect your baby from allergies, asthma
Detroit Free Press Cockroaches might not seem to have much in common with farm animals. But a new study suggests urban newborns who share their homes with cockroaches, mice and cats might get the same kind of protection from allergies and asthma that farm children … |
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The Doctor Is In: Kids & Asthma
MyFox Detroit Inhaled corticosteroids are the most effective anti-inflammatory agents available for the chronic treatment of asthma; they're generally the first-line therapy for children with persistent asthma. Use of spacers with inhalers is of utmost importance … Larry Jones: Learn more about asthma symptoms and treatment Polyclonal cytokine profiles differentiated asthma phenotypes New Study from the Journal of Asthma Underscores Need for Better Allergy … |
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Mobile clinics provide only asthma treatment for some Detroit children
The Detroit News Between 18-20 percent of Detroit Public School children have asthma, according to Ora Beard, principal of Dixon Educational Learning Academy in Detroit. Often left untreated because families don't have access to health care and schools don't have … |
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Heartburn or asthma can cause lasting cough
The Detroit News Dear Dr. Roach: I have a very itchy throat that tickles and makes me cough no matter where I am. I tried taking OTC allergy meds, but they're no help. I tried gargling with warm saltwater with vinegar, and keeping my mouth and throat wet, but no help. |
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Seizures do not have to end sports activity
The Detroit News (Bronchodilators reverse the airway constriction in asthma, and to a lesser extent, in COPD, (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Some of the medicine is absorbed through the lung into the blood. The bronchodilator is a relative of adrenaline … |
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Public health advocates hope Obama's climate change initiative will help …
Crain’s Detroit Business They hope the president's plan will help reduce what they say are the changing climate's adverse effects on child and adult asthma, allergies and other respiratory diseases, heart disease, diabetes, and other air- and heat-related conditions, as well … |
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