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...develop cervical tumors. Another study showed that children raised by smokers have as much as three times greater risk of developing lung cancer when they grow up. A fourth study found that the grandchildren of women who smoked while pregnant are more than twice as likely to develop asthma as children whose grandmothers did not. And environmental smoke, even at low levels, was associated with lower reading, math and logic skills in children and teenagers...
...ASTHMA A good joke can be as dangerous as dust or pollen for asthma sufferers. In a new study conducted at New York University, more than 50% of asthma patients reported having an asthma attack after laughing too hard. Flour also emerged as an asthma risk factor. British researchers studying supermarket bakeries found that roughly 15% of the workers developed work-related asthma symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing and difficulty breathing...
...Five days after New Orleans' levees collapsed, flooding the city, Natrena, a home health aide who had stayed behind to help a patient get into a shelter, was stranded on the rooftop of a motel along with her two young boys. When Ty'iyr, 22 months, had an asthma attack, he was airlifted to a hospital, but there was no room in the helicopter for his mom or brother Telly, 5. A few days later, Natrena and Telly were rescued and eventually reunited with the rest of the family in Houston, but they still had no idea where...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) has released a study saying that global warming could cause a significant spread of asthma, infectious diseases, and heat wave deaths over the next several decades. But one professor at the School of Public Health expressed skepticism about some of the study’s findings...
DIED. MOSES GUNN, 64, actor; from complications of asthma; in Guilford, Connecticut. Cofounder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Gunn, the oldest of seven children of a St. Louis, Missouri, laborer, made his off-Broadway debut in the legendary New York premiere of Jean Genet's provocative The Blacks (1962). Gunn won Obie awards for his work in Titus Andronicus (1967) and The First Breeze of Summer (1975), and was admired for his Othello. Movie credits included The Great White Hope (1970) and Shaft...