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The Week Magazine |
Doctors are way overdiagnosing asthma
The Week Magazine There's a paradox here: As recently as the 1980s, asthma was underdiagnosed and undertreated, and in impoverished urban areas it still is, killing 3,630 people in the United States in 2013. Yet the prevalence of asthma more than doubled from the 1980s … |
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CBC.ca |
Asthma diagnosis 'trivialized,' fuels overdiagnosis, doctors say
CBC.ca His research involving roughly 500 adults, published in 2010, suggests asthma is overdiagnosed in about a third of Canadian adults and he's updating the findings. A recent Dutch study on more than 600 children diagnosed as having asthma found nearly 54 … |
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CBS Local |
Local Doctor's Study Examines Whether Allergy & Asthma Drugs Stunt Growth In Kids
CBS Local “Up until now, we've never really known what combination therapy does to the growth of children,” Dr. David Skoner, an allergist at Allegheny General Hospital, says. This allergist's research says yes. “The results of our study shows that the effect is … |
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Daily Mail |
How children like Tamara are dying because doctors don't take asthma seriously
Daily Mail Dawn Wilson comes quickly to tears as she recalls overhearing A&E staff agreeing the time of death for her daughter. Tamara, just 13, had died after an asthma attack. 'I stood outside the cubicle and could hear them working to save her, but when the … |
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Daily Mail |
How children like Tamara are dying because doctors don't take asthma seriously enough
Daily Mail Dawn Wilson comes quickly to tears as she recalls overhearing A&E staff agreeing the time of death for her daughter. Tamara, just 13, had died after an asthma attack. 'I stood outside the cubicle and could hear them working to save her, but when the … |
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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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STAT |
Are doctors overdiagnosing asthma?
STAT There's a paradox here: As recently as the 1980s, asthma was underdiagnosed and undertreated, and in impoverished urban areas it still is, killing 3,630 people in the United States in 2013. Yet the prevalence of asthma more than doubled from the 1980s … Asthma inhalers given out almost as a 'fashion accessory', experts warn Asthma 'over-diagnosed and trivialised' Asthma inhalers handed out like fashion accessories, doctors warn |
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BreakingNews.ie |
Doctors 'over-diagnosing asthma in children'
BreakingNews.ie Writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the authors highlight a previous study in which half of 100 children with chronic cough received an asthma diagnosis, but once the coughs were thoroughly investigated, the number actually thought to have … |
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Asthma is easily manageable through strict control measures: Doctors
Daily News Egypt Asthma is the most common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. It is a condition in which the airways narrow and swell and then produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath, … |
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'Iggy and the Inhalers': Doctors Take Creative Approach to Educate Patients …
NBCNews.com Broncho the Bronchodilator? Coltron the Controller? It's Iggy and the Inhalers to the rescue! When Dr. Alex Thomas noticed that children and their parents often struggled to understand asthma and sometimes confused the different types of medications … |
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