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Pregnant women who smoke may put their kids at risk for severe asthma
CNN (blog) Now add something else to the list: asthma. An intriguing new study suggests African-American and Latino children with asthma whose moms smoke while pregnant are more likely to have severe asthma as teens, even if their moms stop smoking after they are … Prenatal smoking ups asthma risk in teens Prenatal smoking linked to acute asthma in teen years |
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Moms Taking Their Clean Air Message To The EPA
ThinkProgress More than 7 million children have asthma in this country. Behind each of those children is a mom (or dad) taking care of their child, making sure she takes her medicine, vigilantly watching for symptoms. Asthma makes kids sick, and keeps them home from … Smog Season Safety Matters Air quality alert issued for Baltimore Air quality alert in effect |
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Web game Lungtropolis is new tool to help kids manage their asthma
St. Louis American The American Lung Association chose May 1 – World Asthma Day and the start of National Asthma Awareness Month, for the launch of Lungtropolis, an interactive web-based learning game to help children ages 5-10 control their asthma. |
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Millions of Americans young and old live their daily lives with asthma.
Olean Times Herald Asthma, a chronic lung disease in which the airways become inflamed, making breathing difficult, can begin in childhood but is increasingly being diagnosed in adults. A Univera Healthcare study recently found that the incidence of adult asthma is … |
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Most Parents Don't Fill Their Kids' Asthma Meds — Study
Wall Street Journal (blog) By Shirley S. Wang That's the take-home point in a JAMA study aimed at figuring out whether out-of-pocket costs for medications influenced parents' willingness to fill prescriptions for their children's asthma. Analyses from insurance claims for nearly … Co-pays may affect which kids get their meds When co-pays go up, kids' asthma meds goes down |
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Helping older people manage their asthma
Aged Care INsite Older Australians who suffer from asthma are wanted for an asthma research project, to refine a new online training course designed to support people in self managing their asthma. AsthmaWise was developed by Asthma Foundation NSW in partnership with … |
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Asthmatic Moms Who Breast-feed May Help Their Children's Lungs
Tempo Breast-feeding is associated with improved lung function in school-age children, particularly those with asthmatic mothers, a new study says. Swiss and UK researchers analyzed data from nearly 1500 UK children who were born between 1993 and 1997. |
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Asthmatic Moms Who Breast-feed May Help Their Children's Lungs
U.S. News & World Report 3 (HealthDay News) –Breast-feeding is associated with improved lung function in school-age children, particularly those with asthmatic mothers, a new study says. Swiss and UK researchers analyzed data from nearly 1500 UK children who were born between … |
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United States Religious Leaders Urge Mothers to Protect Their Children: The …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) "How many more children are we willing to see suffer from asthma, cancer and other diseases through increased exposure of harmful air toxins? Is this a cost we are willing to have our children and our children's children bear? … |
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Treatment of allergic asthma: Modulation of Th2 cells and their responses
7thSpace Interactive (press release) Atopic asthma is a chronic inflammatory pulmonary disease characterised by recurrent episodes of wheezy, laboured breathing with an underlying Th2 cell-mediated inflammatory response in the airways. It is currently treated and, more or less, … |
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