Recent Asthma Articles page 5

Twin Falls Times-News - She also wants the schools to have more medical equipment for children with conditions such as asthma. "Even if nothing happens, one nurse should be at each school," said Hammann. "What if a child died tomorrow because of this?" Hammann's 7-year-old ...

Guardian Unlimited - The Chinese capital's heat, humidity and pollution, particularly the latter for an athlete who suffers from asthma, will present Radcliffe with a severe test of her stamina and resolve. Radcliffe insists that when her career is over, only then will ...

Guardian Unlimited - Palmer adds that the issue runs hand in hand with progressive social politics - because people in the lowest income brackets of communities tend to suffer more from asthma and respiratory disease aggravated by pollution emitted from petrol-fuelled ...

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 ...