Farm Life Exposes Kids to Microbes, Cutting Asthma Risks – Health Aim


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Farm Life Exposes Kids to Microbes, Cutting Asthma Risks
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By Nancy on February 24, 2011 Kids who live on farms breathe in fresh clean air and they are less likely than city-bred kids to have asthma, according to a new European study, the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Farm-raised kids are less prone to asthma. Who gets the credit? Germs
Los Angeles Times
Children raised on farms don't suffer from asthma as much as their city- and suburb-dwelling counterparts, according to a paper published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. But it's not necessarily
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Kids Growing Up on Farms Less Likely to Have Asthma – U.S. News & World Report


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Kids Growing Up on Farms Less Likely to Have Asthma
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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. The risk of asthma was reduced by as much as 51 percent for
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Farm living could arm kids against asthma – USA Today

Farm living could arm kids against asthma
USA Today
Kids who grow up on traditional farms are 30% to 50% less likely than other children to develop asthma, a new study shows. But it's not the fresh country air. By Ariel Skelley Farm children whose household dust has the greatest
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Mercury News editorial: Health insurance window closing for California kids – San Jose Mercury News

Mercury News editorial: Health insurance window closing for California kids
San Jose Mercury News
The federal government last year initiated reforms forbidding health insurers to deny coverage to children with chronic conditions, such as asthma or diabetes. California's Legislature took that one step further by forcing insurers to offer premiums

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Kids of working mums more likely to be ill – Sify


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Kids of working mums more likely to be ill
Sify
The research of the health of 90000 schoolchildren found that those whose mothers worked were more likely to have spent time in hospital, to have been diagnosed with asthma and to have suffered bone breaks and poisonings. Lack of supervision is thought
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Kids of Working Moms Are More Likely to Get Hurt – TIME


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Kids of Working Moms Are More Likely to Get Hurt
TIME
Kids whose moms were employed outside the home, the paper found, were more likely to have been hospitalized, had an asthma attack or an injury or ingested something poisonous in the last year than kids whose moms weren't working.
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Report: Moms with jobs have sicker kids – Omaha World-Herald


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Report: Moms with jobs have sicker kids
Omaha World-Herald
A new study concludes that children of mothers who work outside the home have a 200 percent higher chance of overnight hospitalizations, asthma episodes and injuries or poisonings. The North Carolina State University study involved 89000 kids ages 7 to
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