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Environmental Defense Fund (blog) |
Asthma Awareness Month – Show How You Care About the Air
Environmental Defense Fund (blog) ChildAsthma May, which is well into ozone season in many regions in Texas, is also Asthma Awareness Month — an opportunity for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and health partners to educate Americans on asthma health risks and … |
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Missouri to fund some home assessments for kids with asthma
fox4kc.com KANSAS CITY, Mo — Sometimes, the biggest dangers to your child are right in the home. The state of Missouri will soon provide funds to see that dangers for some kids with asthma are found there so they can be eliminated. “How long ago was the last … |
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WDRB |
Grant being used to fund asthma research at U of L
WDRB They will take the first comprehensive look at the triggers of asthma in adults over the age of 60. The study will look at the many causes, including personal and environmental influences. "If you can prevent it, you can prevent hospitalizations that … |
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Why Latinos are disproportionately affected by asthma, and what we can do
Environmental Defense Fund (blog) This post was co-authored by EDF's Rachel Shaffer and Declan Kingland, National Health Programs Coordinator for the League of United Latin American Citizens. Today in the United States, Latinos are three times more likely to die from asthma than other … |
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Vista Latina: $4 million grant to fund Imperial Valley asthma research project
Imperial Valley Press Local children up to age 17 visited emergency departments with uncontrolled asthma twice as often as other children in California in 2012. It is estimated that at least 75 percent of those children were Latino, according to information provided by … |
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Cape Cod Today |
State public health fund distributed to nine groups focused on pediatric …
Boston.com (blog) The grants are aimed at programs meant to prevent high blood pressure, smoking, childhood asthma, and falls among the elderly. “In three years, our job is to show that we can reduce the prevalence of these conditions,” said Public Health Commissioner … New Bedford one of nine communities to get state health and wellness funds |
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Heinz Endowments to fund asthma research
witf.org (Pittsburgh) — The Heinz Endowments is funding a $415,000 study by researchers to determine whether asthma rates among Pittsburgh Public Schools students are as bad as school nurses say. The nurses estimate as many as half of the city's school … Today's buncombe, itemized |
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PCORI to Fund $17 Million Worth of Asthma Research
AAFP News Now The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently announced(www.pcori.org) it is providing $17 million for research that aims to answer long-standing questions regarding disparities in controlling the asthma burden in both the black and … |
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City looks to fund asthma program through bond sales
Employee Benefit News The city has embarked on an ambitious program to reduce the rate of asthma-related emergencies among its residents. To fund the effort, it aims to sell special bonds to private investors eager to share in the savings realized by health care providers … |
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Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund Invests in Pivotal Clinical Trial of Oxagen's …
Laser Focus world Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund (MBVF), founded with the help of Russian government-backed RVC, announced today that its investment committee approved the terms and the amount of an investment in Eleventa, a Russian biotech company, which was … |
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