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Web-based tool helps parents improve on kids' asthma treatment
Medical Xpress Asthma is the most common chronic illness in adolescents and children, affecting an estimated seven million children up to the age of 17 in the United States. The burden of asthma on children is substantial: kids with asthma have a three-fold greater … |
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Web-Based Tool Helps Parents Improve on Kids' Asthma Treatment
Newswise (press release) Newswise — SEATTLE: June 13, 2012 — Asthma is the most common chronic illness in adolescents and children, affecting an estimated seven million children up to the age of 17 in the United States. The burden of asthma on children is substantial: kids … Children with asthma marginalized in movies, researcher says |
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Web-based tool helps parents improve on kids' asthma treatment
EurekAlert (press release) SEATTLE: June 13, 2012 — Asthma is the most common chronic illness in adolescents and children, affecting an estimated seven million children up to the age of 17 in the United States. The burden of asthma on children is substantial: kids with asthma … Children with asthma marginalized in movies, researcher says |
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Treatment for Asthma
New York Times To the Editor: Re “Asthma by the Numbers” (editorial, June 5): While it is indeed “gloomy” that documented asthma has reached a record high in Americans, there is promising work being done to reduce both the impact of this disease on children and the … |
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Treatment for severe asthma now given in Tulsa; first patient finishes procedure
Tulsa World By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer A procedure to treat severe asthma in adults is now being performed in Tulsa and the first patient in the area finished treatment Thursday. The procedure, called bronchial thermoplasty, heats and reduces extra … |
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Prevea offers new asthma treatment
Green Bay Press Gazette ASHWAUBENON — Prevea Health is offering a new FDA-approved procedure for asthma patients known as bronchial thermoplasty. Bronchial thermoplasty treats severe asthma by insertion of a catheter through the patient's mouth into the lungs using a … |
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National Asthma Awareness Month: What's Next in the Treatment of Acute Asthma?
Newswise (press release) Newswise — May is National Asthma Awareness Month, an appropriate time to ponder an illness that affects nearly 25 million Americans and one in every 10 children in the US Although current treatments adequately address the majority of asthma attacks, … |
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The disease can be controlled by proper treatment
Pakistan Observer Islamabad—World Asthma Day was observed on Sunday (May‚ 6) to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. The theme of World Asthma Day 2012 is “You Can Control Your Asthma”. Asthma control is the goal of treatment and can be achieved in the … |
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Asheville's Mission recognized for asthma treatment
Asheville Citizen-Times For more information about the EPA's National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management, visit www.epa.gov/asthma. ASHEVILLE — An asthma program run by Mission Children's Hospital was awarded a top national honor from the US Environmental … Medical costs of asthma about $50 billion EPA Works to Help the Nearly 26 Million Americans with Asthma Mission Children's asthma program receives EPA award |
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'Poor treatment triggering asthma among most patients'
Daily News & Analysis That's how much you have to spend to ensure that your asthmatic kid doesn't have to suffer the ordeal of an attack. And yet, more than 62% of asthma patients under treatment for at least a year have uncontrolled asthma due to poor treatment adherence. |
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