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Environmental Illness in Kids Costs Billions – MedPage Today


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Environmental Illness in Kids Costs Billions
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Building on a 2002 analysis, investigators estimated how much of a role environmental factors play in causing such conditions as childhood cancers, asthma, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and then attached a dollar figure to the …
Costs To Treat Kids With Lead Poisoning Dwarfs That Of Cancer, AutismThe Consumerist
Environmental Illness in US Kids Cost $76.6 Billion in One YearEnvironment News Service
Estimated costs of environmental disease in children at $76.6 billion per yearEurekAlert (press release)
SOS Children’s Villages Canada –ShortNews.com –HealthLeaders Media
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Anti-Leukotrienes as Good as Standard Asthma Therapy – MedPage Today


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Anti-Leukotrienes as Good as Standard Asthma Therapy
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Note that these studies found that the real-world effectiveness of a leukotriene-receptor antagonist was effective for first-line asthma-controller therapy or as add-on therapy in patients already …
Asthma pill as effective as inhalers and easier to useMedical News Today
Asthma Pills Work as Well as Inhaled Steroids: StudyU.S. News & World Report
Pills better for treating asthma than inhalersTelegraph.co.uk
PR Newswire (press release) –AFP –Reuters AlertNet
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AAAAI: Long-Acting Beta Agonist Combo Okay for Kids – MedPage Today


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AAAAI: Long-Acting Beta Agonist Combo Okay for Kids
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Explain that a single-center retrospective study found no increase in pediatric intensive care unit admissions for asthma patients on the combination of long-acting beta agonists and inhaled corticosteroids. Note that the study compared outcomes for …
No Benefit to Increased Inhaled Steroids in Asthma ExacerbationInternal Medicine News Digital Network

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AAAAI: Asthma Tracks Childhood Obesity – MedPage Today


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AAAAI: Asthma Tracks Childhood Obesity
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Explain that overweight children who become overweight as young adults appeared to have an increased risk of developing asthma compared with children who didn't carry around extra pounds. Note that that children who are overweight as 6-8 years olds and …
People with asthma at greater risk of diabetes, heart disease–studyTheMedGuru

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Asthma Drug Cuts Seasonal Flares for Inner-City Kids – MedPage Today

Asthma Drug Cuts Seasonal Flares for Inner-City Kids
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Explain that a monoclonal antibody directed against IgE (omalizumab) improved asthma symptoms and reduced the need for other controller medications among inner-city children with persistent allergic asthma …
Xolair Relieves Kids' Seasonal Asthma Attacks: StudyWebMD
Omalizumab Improves Asthma Control in Inner-City ChildrenMedscape
Xolair Reduces Seasonal Asthma Attacks for Inner City Kids: StudyU.S. News & World Report
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