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...ills of 8,000 English couples, researchers publishing in the British Medical Journal found that when one partner is depressed or has an ulcer, the other is twice as likely as a member of a healthy couple to have the same problem. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and asthma also seem to run in pairs. Some of these phenomena can easily be explained. Spouses are exposed to the same allergens, which can play a role in triggering asthma attacks, and they tend to have similar diets, which can affect blood pressure and cholesterol levels. And certainly if one partner...
...blaming herself for her dad's disappearance and was preoccupied with guilty thoughts. "I kept thinking that if the cat had gotten sick or I'd gotten sick that morning, he wouldn't have gone to work," says Hilary. She had seen students at her school have violent asthma attacks. If only her lungs had closed up on Sept. 11, she thought...
Nowhere is presidential leadership more lacking than in the debate over global warming. It took the Bush Administration 16 months to acknowledge what scientists have known for more than a decade: the same pollution--primarily from fossil fuels--that causes asthma and respiratory illness is also altering and warming the atmosphere. Refusing to address climate change may bring unprecedented environmental damage to the health and well-being of people throughout the world...
...report published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. A study at the University of Bristol England followed 11,000 kids for more than three years. Researchers found that young children who were bathed or washed more than twice a day were more likely to have severe eczema or asthma, suggesting that too much cleanliness inhibits a child's natural immune responses to everyday bacteria. --By Lisa McLaughlin
DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French-born model and self-taught artist best known for her colorful papier-mache sculptures of huge, voluptuous women, called nanas, a French term akin to "broad"; after battling emphysema and asthma; in La Jolla, Calif. A member, with Christo, of the Nouveaux Realistes, she first won fame in the early 1960s for her "shooting" pieces, for which she would fire a gun at her sculptures and paintings in galleries. Among her most famous installations is the Tarot Garden--a park in Garavicchio, Italy, featuring 22 monumental pieces inspired by tarot card characters...