Word: asthma
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...especially in urban areas--and IgE has become something of a nuisance. The higher the level of IgE in your body, the more likely you are to develop allergic reactions to otherwise harmless stuff, like peanuts. IgE-triggered allergies also seem to play a role in certain cases of asthma. Over the past decade, researchers have developed specialized compounds, called monoclonal antibodies, to block the action of IgE and dampen the body's allergic reactions...
...Local papers made you sound like a sissy when you were in Jail, saying that you claimed you shouldn't be there because of asthma. I heard a lot of that stuff. But the funny thing was, the people in the facility saw the papers, and then they realized how much crap people talk. One of the rumors during that time was that I was smashed in the head with a guitar. The guys were, like, 'what the hell? We don't even have a guitar in here...
...your fans with the accident by not being a perfect role model Who's perfect? You shouldn't curse, you shouldn't say s--- or f---, right? Sorry, I do that. You shouldn't smoke, right? (He taps his cigarette.) I do that. I don't drink because of asthma. I've never been that perfect-idol guy. For me, there is no perfect. When you get a piece of bread, you find out there's toast. When you get toast you find there's butter, then peanut butter, then jam. Oops, then you find smoked salmon. Then someone passes...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...
...work with asthmatics in Boston’s public housing projects helped to reduce environmental triggers for asthma attacks...