Word: chil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Personal experience inspired Echelman to make the sculpture. After working with HIV-positive mothers and chil...
Other researchers blame the jump in asthma rates on gaps in the availability of health care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment...