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Local Graduates are Helping Kids Manage Their Health Through a New Mobile …
BostInno Given the previous success of virtual pet games like Neopets and Tamagotchi, the duo started developing an inaugural game of their own: Wellapets, an app teaching children how to treat and avoid asthma attacks. Asthma is one of the most common … |
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Number of Kids Visiting Hospital for Asthma Dropping Fast in Harlem
NY1 The number of kids visiting the hospital citywide for asthma attacks is going down, but it's dropping especially fast in one community. NY1's Erin Billups filed the following report. It's been more than a year since Ayliphelet Ramirez has had to rush … |
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Interferon therapy offers new hope for kids with asthma
Medical Xpress Using data from TICHR's 158-family,10 year Childhood Asthma Study, Dr Fear is following up what happened to babies who showed a high risk for asthma when they were born and what happened to babies who showed a low risk for asthma at birth. |
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Number of Kids Visiting ER for Asthma Dropping Fast in East, Central Harlem
NY1 The number of kids visiting the emergency room citywide for asthma attacks is going down, but it's dropping especially fast in one community. NY1's Erin Billups filed the following report. It's been more than a year since Ayliphelet Ramirez has had to … |
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Secondhand Smoke Can Hurt Kids With Asthma More
dailyRx Yoshiki Kobayashi, MD, from the Airway Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London in England, led a team of researchers who investigated how passive smoking affected children's response to their asthma … |
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Health Matters: Asthma– Not just kid's stuff – NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort …
NBC2 News "There's things like meat packers asthma from the plastic that's used to wrap meat. There is popcorn-makers asthma, folks who are allergic to the butter in popcorn. Folks can be allergic to rubbing alcohol, they can be allergic to perfume, they can be … |
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Health Matters: Asthma– Not just kid's stuff
NBC2 News Much has been made about the rising number of children with asthma. It's estimated almost 10% of the juvenile population has it, but at 8%, grown-ups aren't far behind. "And it turns out to be a source of morbidity to them as well, because of days … |
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Passive Smoking Dangerous for Asthmatic Kids
The New Indian Express Passive smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and impair their response to inhaled steroid treatment, but how this effect occurs was not known till date. Researchers at Imperial College London found that children with severe asthma … Passive smoking impairs children's responses to asthma treatment Passive Smoking Lowers Treatment Effectiveness in Children with Asthma Kids exposed to passive smoke respond less to asthma treatment |
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Dexamethasone Tames Acute Asthma in Kids, With Less Vomiting
Medscape Giving children with acute asthma flare-ups 1 or 2 doses of dexamethasone in the emergency department (ED) provides equivalent relief to a 5-day course of prednisone while reducing the chance of triggering vomiting, according to a meta-analysis by … |
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Virtual pet game targets kids asthma management
mobihealthnews Wellapets Boston-based LifeGuard Games is gearing up to launch a mobile game to teach children to manage their asthma. Wellapets, which is due to launch at the end of February, follows the mold of recently popular virtual pet games like Club Penguin or … |
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