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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight preschoolers who keep the extra pounds have a heightened asthma risk at age seven, but the baby fat doesn't seem to matter for kids who slim down, a new study suggests.Researchers found that of more than ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with asthma and pollen allergies were more likely to wheeze, cough and have shortness of breath and other asthma symptoms -- even when pollen levels were considered "low" -- in a new study that suggests parents ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One class of drugs used to prevent wheezing and shortness of breath in people with asthma may increase kids' risk of being hospitalized for an asthma attack, according to a new analysis from the U.S. Food and ...
(Reuters) - A mother's exposure to airborne pollutants at work during her pregnancy may increase the likelihood that her unborn child will later develop asthma, a Danish study said.The review of registry data on 45,658 seven-year-old children and their mothers found that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Shaving off extra pounds might help asthmatic kids prevent flare-ups of the disease, according to a study that found obese children have a harder time controlling their symptoms.The work is the first to show that even after ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents of kids with asthma don't always realize when their children's treatment is inadequate, a new drugmaker-funded survey suggests.While more than seven out of every 10 parents interviewed described their child's asthma as "mild" or "intermittent," the ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Swiss researchers have tied asthma risk to several common painkillers, adding to ongoing controversy about the role of such drugs in the worldwide upswing in the disease.But they say their work hints that painkillers aren't at the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors have been scratching their heads for years over the higher asthma risk in kids who use acetaminophen, a common painkiller known as Tylenol in the US.Just last August, researchers studying toddlers in Ethiopia said it was ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Dust blown from faraway deserts may accumulate in the air to levels great enough to contribute to children's asthma attacks, a new study suggests.It's well established that poor air quality can worsen symptoms in people with asthma ...
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