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Windsor Star |
Catholic school board updating health policy on asthma
Windsor Star Among the highlights of the new provincial requirements, boards must identify students with health issues at registration, train staff regularly on how to identify triggers to asthma attacks, educate staff in contact with the child on how to administer … |
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Chron.com (blog) |
A role for policy: Asthma interventions require supportive policies for long …
Chron.com (blog) CHB-Asthma Asthma, a chronic lung disease with unclear causes, is characterized by excessive sensitivity of the lung airways to various triggers. Certain environmental triggers, such as be air pollution, exercise, allergens, cold weather, viral … |
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Health policy expert to present MEDTalk on pediatric asthma alternative …
News from the University of Massachusetts MEDTalk: Pediatric Asthma and Transforming Care for the Most Vulnerable, the third in the Merkin Series on Innovations in Care Delivery, will feature seven TED-style talks in person at the Brookings Intuition's Washington, D.C., headquarters or as a … |
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Yahoo News Canada (blog) |
Asthmatic Canadian teen dies after school policy won`t let him carry inhaler
AMERICAblog (blog) Ontario, Canada resident Sandra Gibbons is pushing to change the law so that no one else's child dies in school from a preventable asthma attack. Gibbons' 12 year old son Ryan died October 9, 2012 after he began to suffer from symptoms of asthma on the … SO SAD! Student With Asthma Dies After School Confiscates His Inhaler … Child with asthma dies after school confiscates his inhaler Boy with Asthma Dies After School Confiscates His Inhaler |
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Pesticides Key Contributor in Childhood Diseases, Highlights Need for Policy …
eNews Park Forest A new report highlights the growing body of research that links pesticides to the rampant rise of learning disabilities, childhood cancer and asthma in the United States, and calls for swift policy change to protect future generations. In particular … Pesticides Harm Kids' Health and Intelligence, Study Finds |
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Anti-Idling Policy Posed by Rockwood Elementary Students
Patch.com Rockwood board of education director Steve Smith said he believed the students were emphasizing an important element related to the number of students that miss school due to asthma and Rockwood's reimbursement from the state associated with student … |
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Asthmatic Subjected to EPA Experiments; Inhofe Wants Hearing
National Legal and Policy Center According to the complaint filed in Virginia, Huffman “was led to believe that the benefit of the experiment would be to help people with asthma…. He was not informed that the pollution EPA was forcing into his lungs could actually cause him to have … The EPA's Disturbing Human Experiments |
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 Globe and Mail |
Foreign Policy: RIP Anthony Shadid
NPR 16 of an asthma while reporting in Syria. A photo from an unknown location of New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid, who died Feb. 16 of an asthma while reporting in Syria. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor of … Journalist's risks benefited us all Anthony Shadid's memoir to be out early Reporter Anthony Shadid's Death Highlights Asthma Dangers |
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 CBS Local |
Chicago schools adopt new policy for dealing with asthma, allergies
WBEZ The Board of Education voted yesterday to establish an asthma and diabetes management policy, its first ever. The district says asthma is the top chronic disease in CPS—more than 19000 students have it. Under the policy, parents are asked to notify … CPS to enact new policies on allergies, diabetes, asthma management Epi-pens Headed to All Chicago Public Schools Father of girl who died of reaction backs CPS policy to stock EpiPens |
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Springfield Schools Considering Policy Affecting Students with Allergies and …
KSPR An estimated 2000 Springfield students have allergies and 3000 have asthma. In response, the district is considering a policy that would require families to provide allergy information upon enrollment. Teachers would get extensive training on the … |
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