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New Energy Economy Enviro Group Misleads Public in Campaign Against PNM
New Mexico Watchdog Its campaign, entitled “Coal Hurts,” shows a child sucking air through a respirator against a background of heavy smoke pouring from a cluster of smokestacks. but the photo has nothing to do with PNM's power plant, and the child in the photo has asthma … |
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New Haven Department of Public Works trucks retrofitted to cut diesel …
New Haven Register By Alexandra Sanders, Register Staff NEW HAVEN — Just in time for Asthma Awareness Month, the city took a step Tuesday to improve air quality by reducing particulate emissions, a significant contributor to asthma. The city showcased one of six … Bye Bye, Belching Black Smoke |
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Asthma Summit Highlights Regional Problems
Essential Public Radio Pollution and high obesity rates help to make Pittsburgh fourth highest in the nation for asthma rates, according to experts at an asthma summit on the North Side on Wednesday. Pollution and high obesity rates help to make Pittsburgh fourth highest in … |
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 Gozo News |
Maltese Asthmatic Society public seminar to be held in Gozo
Gozo News The Maltese Asthmatic Society are organising a seminar on asthma in the Conference Hall of the Ministry for Gozo, Victoria. The seminar, which is taking place on Friday, the 25th of May, will include information about asthma, presented by Dr. Robert … |
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May is Asthma Awareness Month
Public News Service May is Asthma Awareness Month, encouraging Californians to learn more about the chronic respiratory disease and its triggers. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, nearly 26 million people have asthma, including 7 million children. Kituwah Academy students learn about asthma SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Asthma Awareness Month celebrations set Breathing easier — Know your triggers to avoid asthma attacks |
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
'Not Sexy' diseases like asthma need more public – and medical – attention
Telegraph.co.uk Each year there are more than 1000 deaths from asthma. The charity Asthma UK estimates that 90 per cent of these are preventable Photo: Alamy By Max Pemberton There are many ways of categorising disease, either by the anatomical changes that are … |
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The Season's Public Enemies
Wall Street Journal (blog) This priming effect can bring on even more severe symptoms for allergy patients, especially those with asthma, says Neil Kao, an allergist in Greenville, NC Medications, including eye drops, antihistamines and nasal sprays, can relieve hay-fever … Allergy season comes early this year because of the unusually mild winter How to avoid spring sneezing and stuffiness Warm Scarsdale Winter Means Fierce Allergy Season |
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Ohio Kids with Asthma: The Real Face of Climate Change?
Public News Service COLUMBUS, Ohio – Thousands of Ohio children with asthma struggle to breathe each day, and some experts say a major culprit is smog caused by industrial pollution. This week, for the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected … |
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Assessment of public health impact of work-related asthma
7thSpace Interactive (press release) Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society related to … |
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Spare the Air alerts make air district public enemy No. 1 — but there's a …
San Jose Mercury News 1, the start of a winter season that has seen hospitals throughout the Bay Area reporting almost double the normal admissions for cases of asthma. "Particulate matter is very dangerous, and it can have devastating health consequences," Roselius said. |
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