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For Women With Asthma, Additional Complications Arise During Pregnancy
90.5 WESA On a recent afternoon, Kelly Liartis is at Magee Women's Hospital for a check-up. She's talking to her doctor Hyagriv Simhan about her soon-to-be-born baby — and her frequent summer asthma flare-ups. He's telling her that despite her fears, its … |
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Asthma In The Region Examined In Summit For World Asthma Month
90.5 WESA May is World Asthma Month, and in an effort to raise awareness of diagnoses, treatments and other asthma-related issues, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals gathered for a one-day summit. One of the goals is to draw attention to how many … |
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New Computer Program Helps Identify Causes of Asthma
90.5 WESA Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and UPMC are trying to answer these questions with a new computer program that has the ability to track 112 clinical variables for 398 people who do and do not have asthma. This program can identify … |
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Allegheny Health Network Study Aims to Get a Clearer Picture of Asthma Rates
90.5 WESA “We get reports at times from school systems that 50% of the children either have an inhaler at school or their parents send a form back at the beginning of the year saying that their child has asthma. 50%, that's a very high number. We're not sure if … |
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Study to Determine Extent of Childhood Asthma in Pittsburgh Region
90.5 WESA It's hard to know exactly how many kids have asthma in the Pittsburgh region but a study is underway aimed at determining just how prevalent it is and what some of the triggers may be. Nearly 25 million Americans and more than 9 percent of children … |
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Camp Huff-n-Puff Gives Kids with Asthma the Summer Camp Experience
90.5 WESA Living in Pittsburgh with asthma can be difficult with air quality alerts, high pollen and ragweed levels, and general city pollution. Triggers for this chronic inflammatory disease are everywhere and no one knows this better than the kids trying to … |
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Monday Rundown: Pops, Cops, and A Summer Camp For Asthma
90.5 WESA It was often suggested that children with asthma remain sedentary. However, studies show physical activity can actually help the condition. Helping children with asthma to better recognize the symptoms and manage their condition is the goal of Camp … |
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Pittsburgh Physicians Conduct Asthma Research
90.5 WESA Twenty-five million people in the United States have asthma, and that number is growing every year. Research by the Allegheny Health Network is now underway that examines whether high levels of particulate air pollution in the Pittsburgh area are … |
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New Drug Explored at Pitt Could Stomp Out Asthma
90.5 WESA A new study out of the University of Pittsburgh may have found a way to treat asthma in patients that were not responding well to any other form of treatment. “This is perhaps the most remarkable efficacy study in asthma in the last 20 years,” said the … |
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