Gene breakthrough offers hope to asthma sufferers – Lancashire Evening Post


Lancashire Evening Post

Gene breakthrough offers hope to asthma sufferers
Lancashire Evening Post
Dr da Silva said: “Alternative therapeutic approaches that can both reduce inflammatory and remodeling processes by over-expressing or inhibiting specific genes in the asthma inflammatory cascade, in different types of asthma and without leading to …

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Mum says son who died after severe asthma attack will live on through others after his organs were donated – Manchester Evening News


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Mum says son who died after severe asthma attack will live on through others after his organs were donated
Manchester Evening News
The mum of a teenage boy who died after suffering a severe asthma attack says her son will live on through others after his organs were donated. Thomas-Michael Martin, known as Tom, was on his way to hospital with mum Dawn Gerrard and a friend when …

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Memorial garden plan to remember 10-year-old who died from asthma attack – Manchester Evening News


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Memorial garden plan to remember 10-year-old who died from asthma attack
Manchester Evening News
Friends and family of a tragic 10-year-old who died from an unexpected asthma attack are appealing for help to build a memorial garden at his former school. Isaac Maley passed away within minutes after he began wheezing and struggling to breathe last …

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Asthmatic children wear monitors to track levels of pollution on way to school – Evening Standard


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Asthmatic children wear monitors to track levels of pollution on way to school
Evening Standard
Asthmatic children are wearing pollution monitors and GPS trackers to measure how much noxious air they breathe in walking to school for a major study by a team of London scientists. Queen Mary University of London researchers are examining whether …

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Heartbroken mum speaks out following sudden death of 10-year-old son from unexpected asthma attack – Manchester Evening News


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Heartbroken mum speaks out following sudden death of 10-year-old son from unexpected asthma attack
Manchester Evening News
A devastated mother has spoken of her heartbreak following the sudden death of her 10-year-old son from an unexpected asthma attack. Isaac Maley died within minutes after he began wheezing and struggling to breathe. It was the first attack he had ever …

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New app will help scientists understand triggers for asthma and hay fever – Evening Standard


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New app will help scientists understand triggers for asthma and hay fever
Evening Standard
Hay fever and asthma sufferers can become “citizen scientists” by sharing their symptoms on a new app. The free app called BritainBreathing was created to help experts understand what triggers an allergic reaction. Scientists will then be able to
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Asthma sufferer died after he was left in coma for 20 minutes outside hospital … – Evening Standard


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Asthma sufferer died after he was left in coma for 20 minutes outside hospital
Evening Standard
His breathing problems were triggered by a chest infection and made worse by his asthma. The inquest heard that staff were taking a two-hour break instead of their allotted one hour when Mr Washington fell ill, leaving him and seven other acutely ill

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Tragic Stockport schoolboy’s ‘amazing legacy’ as hundreds of school nurses … – Manchester Evening News

Tragic Stockport schoolboy's 'amazing legacy' as hundreds of school nurses
Manchester Evening News
Hundreds of school nurses are to have asthma awareness training – as part of a tragic schoolboy's legacy. Sam Linton, 11, died after suffering an asthma attack at Offerton High School in Stockport in December 2007. Staff did not dial 999 after he was

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