Topic: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Asthma cases in the United States have risen 12.3 percent since 2001, and nearly one in 12, or almost 25 million Americans, are stricken with the chronic respiratory disease, the government said Tuesday.The extra 4.3 million cases over the past decade also ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - About 25 million Americans, or 1 in 12 people, have asthma, a figure that is rising despite efforts to control key asthma triggers such as indoor smoking, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
Asthma has many triggers, and sufferers must learn to identify those triggers in order to manage their asthma. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that Americans stay inside 90 percent of the time, so knowing which triggers they might encounter will help ...
Allopaths recommend that asthma patients should be periodically examined and have their lung functions measured by spirometry. The best drug therapy is that which controls asthmatic symptoms while causing few or no side effects.. When steroids are taken by inhalation for a ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to certain substances on the job is a major contributor to asthma attacks, a new analysis of European data shows.Overall, the researchers estimate that work-related exposures to gases, dust, fumes and other substances account for 15 ...
Swine Flu is scary- especially for parents of asthmatic children. Because the Swine Flu has respiratory symptoms, parents of children with chronic asthma need to take special precautions to prepare for a swine flu pandemic.. Make sure you have your refills of ...
There are a number of ways that parents of children with asthma can prepare for flu season and the new school year, says the American Lung Association.. This includes frequent handwashing and covering your mouth when coughing or sneezing," Dr. Norman H. ...
The article discusses the content of expert panel guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma that were released by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. To effectively treat patients and ultimately reduce ...
10/24/2008 Print E-mail High levels of nitrogen dioxide emissions from gas stoves can aggravate asthma symptoms in inner-city children, especially pre-schoolers, a new study says. Researchers from John Hopkins University, reporting in the October issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, tied asthma flare-ups ...
8/15/2008 Print E-mail Boys may be more likely to have childhood asthma than girls, but they are also more likely to grow out of it, a new study says. The report, published in the second August issue of the American Journal of ...
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