UMass Memorial Health Care Receives National Award for Pediatric Asthma Program – GoLocal Worcester

UMass Memorial Health Care Receives National Award for Pediatric Asthma Program
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In 2014, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center expanded a pilot program for children with poorly controlled asthma. Under the program, when a clinician or school nurse identifies a child as high risk asthmatic, a specially trained community health …

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National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: PCOS, obesity, brain cancer, and migraines – Bel Marra Health

National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: PCOS, obesity, brain cancer, and migraines
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May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, and there are many other conditions that can affect or be affected by asthma and allergies, including PCOS, obesity, brain cancer, and migraines. For this reason, we have compiled a list of articles

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NIH statement on World Asthma Day 2016 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) – National Institutes of Health (press release)

NIH statement on World Asthma Day 2016 | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institutes of Health (press release)
On World Asthma Day 2016, the National Institutes of Health reaffirms its commitment to support research to improve the lives of all people with asthma. NIH-funded research has advanced our understanding of asthma as a disease as well as the impact …

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Study: Asthma More Common In Pittsburgh Children Than National Average – CBS Local


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Study: Asthma More Common In Pittsburgh Children Than National Average
CBS Local
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — How common is asthma among area school children? Higher than the national average. That's what a new study says, led by asthma specialists at Allegheny General Hospital. “That's very concerning,” says lead investigator Dr.
Poor Air Quality Linked To High Asthma Rate In Pittsburgh Children90.5 WESA
Allegheny Health Network Physicians Announce Results of Study on Asthma in Pittsburgh-area Schoolchildren; Report Press Release Rocket

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Police, coroner won’t comment on how an asthmatic Grade 5 student came to die at Wallaceburg school – National Post


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Police, coroner won't comment on how an asthmatic Grade 5 student came to die at Wallaceburg school
National Post
WALLACEBURG – Ontario's Chief Coroner is probing the sudden death of an asthmatic Grade 5 boy following a medical episode at school. Ten-year-old Javier Guadalupe Avina, whom an online obituary published Thursday remembered as an athletic boy …

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Grade 5 student died from asthma attack in Wallaceburg school despite taking two puffs from inhaler – National Post


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Grade 5 student died from asthma attack in Wallaceburg school despite taking two puffs from inhaler
National Post
Three days after an asthma attack claimed the life of a 10-year-old boy in a Wallaceburg school, officials have pieced together much of what happened. Javier Guadalupe Avina has his puffer with him in his Grade 5 classroom at St. Elizabeth Catholic …

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