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Harvard researchers are teaming up with Boston’s biggest landlord—the Boston Housing Authority (BHA)—to collaborate on a long-term study on reducing unsanitary conditions that cause high rates of asthma in inner-city Boston...
...more common prescriptions in the Ayurvedic school of medicine, which is one of the world's oldest forms of healing. Practitioners have been using Ayurveda's techniques for thousands of years, prescribing gentle herbs, diet, hydrotherapy and medicinal enemas to treat an astonishing array of illnesses, including diabetes, asthma, arthritis and high blood pressure...
...kids. Now if my child so much as clears her throat, it's straight to the Cystic Fibrosis section of the "Mother's Guide to Life-Threatening Conditions That Your Child Almost Certainly Has" book on my shelves. I usually work back from CF, through lung cancer, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, bronchitis, and finally, good old upper respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax. She didn't have...
...ASTHMA ALERT When kids play hard, they breathe hard. And that's a problem in high-smog areas, according to a study of 3,500 schoolchildren in Southern California. Kids in those areas active in outdoor sports were three times as likely to develop asthma as their less active classmates. It has long been known that smog aggravates asthma, but this is the best evidence yet that smog can also cause it. Expect the finding to fan the debate over clean-air standards...
...season is a scary time for asthmatics. They believe--correctly--that the disease can be especially dangerous for them. But many also believe--incorrectly--that the flu shot itself can trigger an asthma attack, which is one of the reasons 9 out of 10 asthmatics pass on getting an annual flu shot. Those fears are misplaced, according to researchers who studied the risks and determined that the vaccine is safe for both children and adults--and who strongly recommend that America's 25 million asthmatics get a flu shot every year...