Asthma Articles page 6

Los Angeles Times - ... began Sunday, scorching over 100,000 acres as of this afternoon. Dark gray plumes blanketing communities such as San Diego and Malibu are carrying soot particles that can worsen pre-existing medical conditions such as lung disease, emphysema, asthma ...

Reuters - In one case, said Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, a company had billed Medicare for millions of dollars worth of specially formulated asthma medication prepared at what the owner claimed to be his own local ...

ZDNet Blogs - Another recent NoImpactMan post talks about the difficulty of getting average Americans to really take global warming seriously, “The biggest marketing problem in history,” he calls it. “Tell people that air pollution causes asthma in one in ...

Inside Bay Area - Four years ago, large fires in San Diego caused problems with her oldest daughter's asthma. Otillio wasn't going to take any chances this time around. "My throat hurt Monday morning. You could already feel it," she said. And as they made their way ...

Detroit Free Press - Such policies would reduce the onslaught of global warming pollution, fish-tainting mercury, asthma-inducing smog, and other pollutants created by coal-fired power plants. It also would reduce the need for dangerous, expensive nuclear power and the ...

San Francisco Gate - They believe bacteria help build the immune system and reduce allergies and asthma and that the good bacteria actually inhibit the production of bad bacteria in raw milk. The new limit, McAfee contends, "is going to make the sale of raw milk very ...

Forbes - Includes HEDIS measures of how well health plans take care of people who have health problems, such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, osteoporosis, alcohol and drug dependence, mental illness and whether physicians advised smokers to ...

Daily Telegraph - Most insurers will not cover chronic conditions such as asthma, dementia, arthritis or Parkinson's. If you develop diabetes, they will pay only for the first few treatments. What they want is a simple hip or hernia operation. According to several ...

Washington Post - Higher rates of asthma among children in certain areas of the city appear to be a potential factor, too. Whatever the reasons, officials described the trend as troublesome. "It's a problem for all of us," said Nicole Lurie, a physician and senior ...

Belfast Telegraph - The bedrooms are ruined, we lost the computer and TVs, but I'm just glad we got out safely." She said she has asthma and is unable to go into the house again. Fire Service Assistant Watch Commander Kevin Chester, who helped battle the blaze ...