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'Iggy and the Inhalers': Doctors Take Creative Approach to Educate Patients …
NBCNews.com Broncho the Bronchodilator? Coltron the Controller? It's Iggy and the Inhalers to the rescue! When Dr. Alex Thomas noticed that children and their parents often struggled to understand asthma and sometimes confused the different types of medications … |
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Here's How Dirt Might Protect Kids From Asthma
NBCNews.com Researchers in Europe think they have figured out how dirt might help protect kids from developing allergies and asthma. They found that dust from dairy farms stimulates an immune response in the lungs of mice that appears to protect against asthma … Here's why farm kids have fewer allergies and less asthma Dirty farm air may ward off asthma in children Growing Up on Farms May Help You Fight Asthma |
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Asthma Reference Guide
NBCNews.com The IMPACT DC asthma clinic has done amazing work in changing the way asthma is treated in the emergency department, through follow up care with PCPs, and through use of mobile technology. http://www.childrensnational.org/impactdc/. FLORIDA. |
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Asthma Reference Guide
NBCNews.com (blog) Children's National sees about 1% of all national visits to the emergency department for asthma. The IMPACT DC asthma clinic has done amazing work in changing the way asthma is treated in the emergency department, through follow up care with PCPs, … |
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Mold, mice and zip codes: Inside the childhood asthma epidemic
NBCNews.com Though mold covers the ceiling and walls of Sepulveda's bathroom—and most likely has exacerbated Melissa's asthma—his landlord, the New York City Housing Authority, has been slow to make the necessary repairs that would get rid of it, according to … |
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Kids' exposure to secondhand smoke drops — except among those with asthma
NBCNews.com At a time when many Americans have managed to kick the habit, a surprising new government report finds that asthmatic kids are just as likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke as they were a decade ago, especially if they come from poor families. Secondhand Smoke: Most Kids with Asthma Exposed Kids, Asthma and Secondhand Smoke |
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The First Real Cure in the $25 billion Asthma Market?
NBCNews.com Everyone has had a friend at school who was asthmatic. Life is not easy for the chronic asthmatic. It is painful experience watching kids wheezing and groaning under an attack on the playground, looking for their inhalers. A number of therapies … |
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Asthma drug can ease agony of constant itch, too
NBCNews.com (blog) Schaeffer's doctor, Dr. Sarbjit Saini of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and colleagues reported their findings at a meeting in San Antonio on Sunday of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and in the New England Journal of Medicine. Schaeffer … Asthma Drug Curbs Chronic Hives Asthma Drug Found Highly Effective in Treating Chronic, Severe Hives and Itch Novartis Reports Omalizumab Significantly Improved Chronic Idiopathic … |
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Smoke-free laws linked to drop in child asthma attacks
NBCNews.com LONDON (Reuters) – Introducing laws banning smoking in enclosed public places can lead to swift and dramatic falls in the number of children admitted to hospital suffering asthma attacks, according to a study in England published on Monday. Don't miss … Smoke-Free Law Linked to Large Fall in Child Asthma Hospital Admissions Child asthma admissions fall after smoking ban UK Smoking Ban Leads to 12% Drop in Child Asthma Cases |
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When babies eat fish could be link to asthma
NBCNews.com (blog) Babies who first ate fish between the ages of six months and one year had a lower risk of developing asthma-like symptoms later on than babies who ate fish before six months or after their first birthdays, according to a Dutch study. The results, based … |
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