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Asthma Brought Us Together as Kids. Facebook Reunited Us as Adults
Huffington Post When I was a child in the early 1970s, I suffered many bad bouts of asthma-related illness. A case of bronchitis became so severe I needed a tracheotomy to keep from dying. After I recovered from the operation, my doctors felt they couldn't treat me … |
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Giving antibiotics to infants may make them more prone to asthma, study says
Washington Post By age 3, about 18 percent of the children had developed wheezing or asthma. Compared with those who had never taken antibiotics, children who had taken the medication in infancy were twice as likely to have developed wheezing and 60 percent more … |
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Traffic pollution seen as a major contributor to new asthma cases
South China Morning Post Almost half of all children have at least one episode of wheezing before six years of age, according to a report which was published in The Lancet to coincide with World Asthma Day last week. Forty-eight per cent of children under five years of age … |
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Asthma Patients Could Face Higher Risk Of Bone Loss
Huffington Post Researchers looked at data from 7,034 people in South Korea, 433 of whom had either airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) or asthma; researchers purposely excluded patients who had a history of systemic corticosteroid use. (Airway hyperresponsiveness is … |
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Hits & Myths: Is it OK to allow asthmatic children to play sport?
South China Morning Post Is it okay for kids with asthma to play sports? The straight answer: Yes. The facts: It's perfectly fine for asthmatic children to take up sports. In fact, many elite and Olympic athletes are asthmatic, like British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe and … |
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The Best Cities for Asthma Sufferers
Huffington Post (blog) With the arrival of spring, many Americans will experience a spike in their asthma symptoms — tightness in the chest, wheezing, shortness of breath or early morning or nighttime coughing. Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United … Raleigh named among best cities for asthma, but scores a 'D' for smog |
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Schenectady tops Bronx as worst place in NY for asthma: study
New York Post ALBANY — Schenectady has edged out The Bronx as the asthma capital of the state among Medicaid recipients. A report issued Friday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that 131.3 of every 1,000 Medicaid recipients in the upstate city have been … |
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Program maps patterns of asthma varieties – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Asthma isn't just one disease but comes in up to six different varieties, according to a new computer analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute at UPMC. The study confirms several subtypes of the disease … |
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Program maps patterns of asthma varieties
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Asthma isn't just one disease but comes in up to six different varieties, according to a new computer analysis from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute at UPMC. The study confirms several subtypes of the disease … |
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Some Asthma Patients May Be Overmedicated, Doctors Say
Huffington Post People with mild asthma are advised to lower their medication dose once their asthma has been brought under control, but the best way to reduce the dose is not fully known, doctors say. As a result, patients may be staying on higher doses than what's … Asthma patients may be over-medicating themselves Are you being overmedicated for asthma? |
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