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University of Utah receives $1.9M research award to study asthma in children
News-Medical.net The e-AT helps engage parents in weekly monitoring of their child's chronic asthma symptoms and guides parents to recognize warning signs of asthma attacks in order to prompt appropriate interventions and, if necessary, visits to primary care providers. |
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Utah Researchers Receive Award to Study Asthma Monitoring in Children
Newswise (press release) Newswise — (SALT LAKE CITY) —The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved a $1.9 million research award to the University of Utah to study asthma in children and how better monitoring of the disease could improve health. |
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Asthma is on the rise in some Top of Utah communities
StandardNet The probable causes for the increase are unclear, as is why asthma is more prevalent in some areas than others, said UDOH spokesperson, Kellie Baxter, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not been able to identify one concrete … |
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Utah asthma action plan: avoid pollution
Salt Lake Tribune Amid reports that more Utahns are wheezing and hacking from asthma, and new efforts to counter its curse, there's an elephant in the air that seems to get little attention: reducing the sickening haze. Summertime ozone and wintertime inversions send … |
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Utah County holding town hall about asthma
CanadianBusiness.com By AP | August 22, 2011 PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah County health officials are holding a town hall meeting to discuss the best ways for people to manage their asthma. The Daily Herald of Provo says the county health department is updating its plan for … |
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700 Utah women participating in children's study
WHIO Radio Officials began enrolling participants in Salt Lake and Cache counties late last year by sponsoring college sporting events and partnering with local businesses. The information will be used to understand childhood diseases such as asthma, autism and … |
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Utah parents light up, kids with asthma head to the ER
Salt Lake Tribune By heather may You might think you were in a tobacco-producing state like West Virginia or Kentucky — not almost smoke-free Utah — judging by the number of parents who light up yet have children who end up in the emergency room for asthma. … |
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Utah freeways choking asthmatic kids?
Salt Lake Tribune There's little doubt that the polluted valley air makes breathing harder for asthmatics — it contributes to the increased use of medications, doctor visits and asthma hospitalizations, according to Utah pediatricians and the state health department. … |
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Utah hospital working to reduce asthma hospitalizations across US
Salt Lake Tribune By heather may Each year, about 700 children are admitted to Utah hospitals because they have asthma and they can't breathe. About 175 will be back in a hospital bed within a year. Many of those re-admissions can be prevented, according to Primary … |
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Why do some Utah kids struggle harder to breathe?
Salt Lake Tribune Between the ages of 1 and 3, Karime was hospitalized about 10 times for asthma. Once, she spent two weeks in a hospital bed, taking oxygen every two hours along with medicine to relax the constricted passages to her lungs, her mother said. … |
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