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Its do not apply to the 10 million adults with more severe forms of the… , of 670 words 87. *- September 16, 2004 Asthma: Breathe easy, Clearing the air about ASTHMA Doctor and those who have condition shatter many old myths about sheltered lifestyles Dennis Garcia is ranked fifth in the nation among tennis players age 10 and younger. He also holds his own on soccer and baseball fields. Not bad for a kid who has had asthma since he was a baby. Every time he had a cold he couldn’t breathe or there was this whistling sound, said his mother, Lucia Garcia.Travels to high-altitude places such as Colorado or Saltillo, Mexico, can leave Dennis feeling nearly breathless but he would rather put up with the… , of 12 words 87. Sydney Morning Herald, The Australia – June 23, 2004 Arresting childhood asthma rate proves as baf fling as its rise The prevalence of asthma in Australian children is stabilising, reversing the big increases of the 1980s and ’90s. Australia’s Health 2004, the nation’s two yearly health report card, finds to 16 per cent of children and 10 to 12 per cent of adults have the condition.No one knows why asthma rates rose so rapidly, or why they have now reached a plateau, said Dr Guy Marks , director of the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring . It… , of 599 words 87. Sydney Morning Herald, The Australia – June 23, 2004 Arresting childhood asthma rate proves as baf fling as its rise The prevalence of asthma in Australian children is stabilising, reversing the big increases of the 1980s and ’90s. Australia’s Health 2004, the nation’s two yearly health report card, finds to 16 per cent of children and 10 to 12 per cent of adults have the condition.No one knows why asthma rates rose so rapidly, or why they have now reached a plateau, said Dr Guy Marks , director of the Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring .“It could be a… , of 512 words 87. Xinhua News Agency – May 4, 2004 New Zealand asthma cases three times global rate: study New Zealanders suffer asthma at three times the global rate, according to an international assessment of the disease.The New Zealand-led assessment, which combines studies, estimates that 0 million people, about five percent of the global population, suffer asthma.The rate among New Zealanders is 15 percent, Auckland-based New Zealand Herald reported Tuesday.The prevalence of the disease is rising – particularly where populations are urbanizing and adopting Western… , of 4 words 87. Chicago Tribune – February 15, 2004 Asthma drug brings `huge’ relief Two recent studies have produced disturbing findings with regard to asthma, allergies and minority children. The first, by Chicago’s Sinai Urban Health Institute, found that percent of Puerto Rican children and 25 percent of African-American children in Chicago have asthma. The rate for white children is percent. By comparison, the overall U.S. average is 12 percent. The second study, published in Chest, the official journal of the American College of Chest… , of 7 words : 621 – 6 of 295486 |5 45556575859606162 63 646566676869707172
Flint Journal, The MI – May 18, 2003 Asthma awareness key to treating disease, health officials say Two 4-year-old girls sat in the small crowd watching a puppet show at the Courtland Center mall. The girls were strangers but share the same malady – asthma. The puppets acted out a story of how youngsters can play sports and be active like other children if the illness is managed. I learned that if you wheeze a lot, to take a breathing treatment, Megan Britton, 4, of Flint said, then proudly took a deep breath and blew it out. Her mother, Martha… , of 667 words 87. Flint Journal, The MI – May 18, 2003 Awareness key to treating asthma Two 4-year-old girls sat in the small crowd watching a puppet show at Courtland Center. The girls were strangers but share the same malady – asthma. The puppets acted out a story of how youngsters can play sports and be active like other children if the illness is managed. I learned that if you wheeze a lot, to take a breathing treatment, Megan Britton, 4, of Flint said, then proudly took a deep breath and blew it out.

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December 2, 1991 Smog Blamed for an Increase in Asthma Cases Researchers who conducted separate studies in , Connecticut, New Jersey and Georgia think they’ve found one explanation for the national upsurge in asthma, and that reason is smog.For papers slated for presentation soon at medical conferences and in journals, they charted hospital visits, hospital admissions and asthma symptoms. In each case, they demonstrated that asthma got worse when the air showed higher levels of ozone–a sharp-smelling, colorless gas that is the… , of 1157 words 88. Washington Post – October 3, 1990 DEATH RATES FROM ASTHMA RISE SHARPLY AMONG YOUNG STUDY SAYS SEVERAL FACTORS MAY HAVE LED TO INCREASE For unknown reasons, death rates from asthma among American children and young adults have been increasing steeply since the late 1970s, according to a study published today. The rise in death rates is greatest among children between the ages of 5 and and is affecting both whites and non-whites, according to the study, which is reported in today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.People with asthma suffer attacks during which the bronchi, the tubes… , of 546 words : 611 – 620 of 295486 |525 455565758596061 62 6 465666768697071
The Dallas Morning News – August , 1988 ASTHMA CAUSES GO BEYOND ALLERGY Although asthma is often thought of as a childhood condition due to a single allergy, such a narrow characterization is inaccurate, according to a physician at University Medical Center. Asthma may begin at any time during adult life, including after 65,’ said Dr. David L. Kamelhar, clinical assistant professor of medicine. It is seldom the result of a single allergy. Some people are sensitive to only one irritant, such as cats or feathers, but… , of 4 words 88. The Record New Jersey – October 5, 1987 STALEMATE IN ASTHMA TREATMENT Mom, it’s real hard to breathe, said Michael Berger, who had just come in from playing and was sitting at the table eating lunch.Michael has asthma, a disease that sometimes blocks his lungs, stifling the exchange of oxygen. He turned on his nebulizer, a device that sprays mists of airway-opening medicines into his lungs.It didn’t help. His lips tinged with blue.His mother, Janice Berger of Reston, Va., took out a flow meter, a… , of 1889 words 87. Newcastle Herald Australia – September 2, 2006 Asthma risk highlighted, Misinformation could harm babies: study PREGNANT women are at risk of harming their babies because their GPs tell them to stop taking their asthma medication, Hunter researchers say. The Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Vicki Clifton said many women stopped taking vital asthma medication during pregnancy because of an unfounded belief the medication could harm their baby.But the opposite was true.Associate Professor Clifton said the health risks of asthma attacks during pregnancy included low birth weight,… , of 299 words 87. *- April 18, 2006 Early Life Exposure to Dust May Protect Against Asthma, From The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology PRNewswire — Exposing children early in life to dust and other microbial agents could protect them from developing asthma, according to new research in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology JACI.Jeroen Dowes, PhD, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, and colleagues’ study, Does early indoor microbial exposure reduce the risk of asthma? The Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy birth cohort… , of 3 words 87. Los Angeles Times CA – April , 2005 The Nation Adults With Mild Asthma Can Limit Drugs, Study Says About 4 million adult Americans with a mild form of asthma may not need to take daily steroid doses, but instead can use the drug only as needed to control symptoms, says a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health.The change would make drug use more convenient, minimize side effects from the powerful drugs and possibly save the nation as much as $2 billion per year, the study concludes.

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The have caused Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew to rethink his rejection of requiring a count of asthmatics in every city school.The findings come just as the city completes its first round of… , of 5 words 93. *Madison, WI – July 12, 1998 UW STUDY ZEROS IN ON ALLEVIATING ASTHMA< OTHER CITIES USE THE RESEARCH AS A MODEL An innovative study designed to help young children in Dane County with asthma is getting national attention.Published this month in the influential journal Pediatrics, the five-year, $ 0,000 study found surprisingly high levels of asthma among children enrolled in local Head Start programs: 15.8 percent compared to between 3 and 7 percent of children nationally. But the authors also outlined what they say are effective ways to reduce the chance that children might suffer permanent lung… , of 802 words 93. Chicago Tribune – April 24, 1998 CHICAGO ERS TARGET RISING TIDE OF ASTHMA For the first time, Illinois has the highest rate of blacks who die of asthma in the U.S., according to new federal statistics released Thursday that also showed more Americans than ever before say they suffer from asthma.The continued rise in asthma nationwide coincides in Chicago with an unprecedented collaboration among 28 emergency departments to solve a frustrating unevenness in quality of care. The report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the local initiative… , of 1 8 words 93. Journal Star Peoria, IL – October 10, 1997 ASTHMA ON THE RISE>DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS ARE MYSTIFIED AS TO WHY THERE’S BEEN A BIG INCREASE IN REPORTED CASES OF ASTHMA SINCE THE EARLY 1980S PEORIA — Once a year in the city of Hyderabad in southern India, hundreds of thousands of asthma sufferers line up to swallow sardines.Apparently, a 19th-century legend has it that a live sardine — swallowed whole, with a bit of an herbal solution embedded in its mouth — is a miracle cure for asthma, when followed by a strict 45-day eating regimen and abstinence from tobacco, caffeine, booze and deep-fried food. You have to repeat the process the following year. Half a million… , of 947 words 93. Press of Atlantic City, The NJ – February 22, 1997 CONDITIONS IN WINTER RIPE FOR INDUCING ASTHMA ATTACKS The windows stay closed, the temperature fluctuates madly. The lungs begin to spasm: Asthma.Asthma knows no peak season, but it doesn’t disappear in winter. While area doctors report seeing no significant increase in asthma this season, winter does bring its own asthma triggers. The result: People who may not experience asthma at any other time find their lungs constricting now. This time of year you don’t have high pollen counts, said Dr…. , of 8 words : 1 – 0 of 295486 |29 4 24 445464748
| – August 1, 1996 ABC’S OF ASTHMA OFFERS FREE SESSION ON BREATHING DISORDER JOSIE ROSE of Windsor credits an Obici Hospital class for families with asthma with enabling her teenage daughter to better understand and control her asthma.The class, ABC’s of Asthma, will be offered again next Tuesday at Obici Hospital. The free, one-night session will cover accepting asthma, the basics of asthma and controlling it, including the use of medications, inhalers and peak flow meters. A peak flow meter is a simple tool that measures the openness of large airways… , of 6 words 93. Star, The Ontario, Canada – June 13, 1996 Roaches blamed for asthma Five years ago, a team of researchers set out to determine why asthma is such a severe urban health problem. They penetrated the worst neighborhoods in seven cities and spent $17 million U.S. vacuuming up dust, giving allergy tests and poring over the medical records of poor children.In a few months their first formal reports will hit the medical journals. In the end, the piles of data largely boil down to a single nasty word: cockroaches.The surprising result is likely to change… , of 491 words 93. The Arizona Daily Star – June 10, 1996 Roaches blamed for rise in urban asthma cases Five years ago, a team of researchers set out to determine why asthma is such a severe urban health problem. They penetrated the worst neighborhoods in seven big cities and spent $17 million vacuuming up dust, administering allergy tests and poring over the medical records of poor children.

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