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Survey reveals growing national impact of asthma
MarketWatch (press release) An estimated 29.1 million adults (12.7 percent) have been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetimes, and 18.7 million (8.2 percent) still had asthma, according to 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, Asthma's Impact … |
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Survey Reveals Growing National Impact of Asthma
HealthNewsDigest.com By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HealthNewsDigest.com) – An estimated 29.1 million adults (12.7 percent) have been diagnosed with asthma in their lifetimes, and 18.7 million (8.2 percent) still had asthma, according to 2010 data from the … |
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Asthma plague growing
Times of Malta About 8000 Maltese children suffer from asthma and some 1000 are admitted to hospital because of the respiratory condition each year, the Health Ministry said. The rate of asthma in children has been on the rise and, during a conference to mark World … Special Task Force for respiratory disease prevention |
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Tiniest babies are growing up healthy despite odds
Worcester Telegram Madeline has asthma and remains petite — 4 foot 8 and about 65 pounds at age 20; Rumaisa at age 5 weighed 33 pounds and was 3 1/2 feet tall, smaller than about 90 percent of kids her age. Current information on the girls' size was not in the report; … |
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Growing Number of Americans with Asthma/COPD to Drive Innovative Therapeutics …
Newswire Today (press release) In 2009, 40.3 million Americans were diagnosed with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Of these, 25.1 million had asthma and 15.1 million had COPD. The asthma/COPD therapeutics market is growing, with a high amount of momentum … |
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A Growing List of Hotels in California for Allergy and Asthma Sufferers
Your California Show Ten specially renovated rooms—now called Pure Rooms—at the Sheraton Cerritos make that hotel the latest California property to offer specific rooms for those suffering from severe allergies and asthma. Nearly 50 hotels throughout the state now use a … The Newly Renovated Sheraton Cerritos Hotel Launches PURE Allergy Friendly Rooms |
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Asthma growing among Americans, despite air improvements
Catholic Online In spite of this, 25 million Americans in 2009 suffered from asthma in contrast to about 20 million in 2001. There's a growth of one percent since 2001 and 2009 where those who suffer from the condition has grown from seven percent to eight percent in … With asthma rates on the rise, here's how to manage symptoms Increased Asthma Rates Could Have Devastating Consequences for Latinos Asthma rates climb in US |
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Insights gained from growing cold-causing virus on sinus tissue
EurekAlert (press release) "We now have evidence that there may be new approaches to treating or preventing HRV-C infections," says senior author James Gern, professor of medicine at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an asthma expert at American Family … |
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Children growing on farms less likely to have asthma
DoctorNDTV The risk of asthma is reduced by as much as 51 percent for children living on farms, and researchers suspect that it's the diversity of exposure to different microbes that may offer protection against the disease. Asthma is a chronic lung disease that … |
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) — In a European study that
echoes the findings of other scientists, researchers have found that
children who grow up on farms are less likely to develop childhood
asthma.
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