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January 24, 2016

Middle school student suspended for helping classmate during asthma attack – Fox News

Middle school student suspended for helping classmate during asthma attack
Fox News
A student in Killeen, Texas, was suspended on Tuesday after he picked up a classmate who was having an asthma attack and carried her to the nurse's office against his teacher's instructions. Anthony Ruelas, 15, a student at Gateway Middle School, …
Texas teen suspended for carrying fellow student suffering asthma attack to nurse's officeAL.com
Asthma Attack Spurs The Suspension of a Texas Middle School Student Who Just Tried To HelpThe Inquisitr
Killeen student suspended after carrying classmate having asthma attack to nurseKHOU
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January 24, 2016

Zero Tolerance: Another Texas Student Suspended for Helping Asthmatic Classmate – Breitbart News

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Zero Tolerance: Another Texas Student Suspended for Helping Asthmatic Classmate
Breitbart News
Instead of praise, a Central Texas school district suspended a 15-year-old boy when he rushed a classmate, who was in the throes of an asthma attack, to the school nurse's office in yet another incident of zero tolerance policies overriding common sense.

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January 14, 2016

Helping asthma sufferers at Westgate – Royal Gazette

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Helping asthma sufferers at Westgate
Royal Gazette
A breath of fresh air: Westgate Correctional Facility nurse Julee Smith recently completed a six-month asthma course organised by charity Open Airways. She was one of six nurses who spent 300 hours studying asthma medicine and treatment (Photograph …

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October 17, 2015

Asthma: Helping Children and Caregivers Breathe Easier – Pharmacy Times

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Asthma: Helping Children and Caregivers Breathe Easier
Pharmacy Times
Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs in the airways due to a complex interaction of factors,¹ is characterized by symptoms that cause reversible airway narrowing and increased airway responsiveness to a variety of stimuli. The reversible …

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September 30, 2015

Patients Are Helping Doctors Understand Asthma By Using iPhones – BuzzFeed News

Patients Are Helping Doctors Understand Asthma By Using iPhones
BuzzFeed News
The app reminds participants to take their asthma medications, notifies them about air pollutants in their area, and prompts them to keep a daily diary of their triggers, symptoms, and attacks. For patients, Chan said, the result of these combined …

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July 21, 2015

Helping kids with asthma breathe in heavy heat and humidity – LocalSYR.com … – WSYR

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Helping kids with asthma breathe in heavy heat and humidity – LocalSYR.com …
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Helping kids with asthma breathe in heavy heat and humidity. 07/20/2015 05:43 PM. 07/20/2015 06:08 PM. Summer activities can be more challenging for kids with asthma and other breathing problems (NewsChannel 9). The summer months can be difficult …

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July 20, 2015

Helping kids with asthma breathe in heavy heat and humidity – WSYR

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Helping kids with asthma breathe in heavy heat and humidity
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Syracuse (WSYR-TV) – The summer months can be difficult for people living with asthma or other breathing issues, as the heat and humidity continue to rise. "When you get into the heat and humidity, all the mucous and everything that's in your airwaves …

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May 18, 2015

Helping Children to Control Asthma – AllAfrica.com

Helping Children to Control Asthma
AllAfrica.com
Although saddened by the ugly situation, Oluwakemi's younger sister, Oyindamola Jaiyesimi, believes that the Oluwakemi narrative must not be allowed to die but must be used to as a platform to educate children and young persons living with asthma.

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April 15, 2015

Helping asthma sufferers to breathe easier – Royal Gazette

Helping asthma sufferers to breathe easier
Royal Gazette
Asthma sufferers visited the Emergency Department at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital more than 2,000 times last year. It needn't be so. According to asthma charity Open Airways, each of those visits signals an asthma management plan that has failed.
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March 26, 2015

Helping Kids with Asthma “Nota-Gonna-Wheeze” – Tristatehomepage.com

Helping Kids with Asthma "Nota-Gonna-Wheeze"
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The program teaches students things like how to live with asthma, use their meds appropriately, ways to cope with feeling different, and how to recognize and treat asthma symptoms. The camp is free to anyone in the area who would like to attend …

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