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October 25, 2010

What Vaccines Should I Get If I Have Asthma Or COPD?

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Those with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are as much as 20 times more likely than healthy individuals to develop serious respiratory [...]

September 20, 2010

Smoking Ban Reduces Childhood Asthma Hospital Admissions

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The researchers collected routine hospital administrative data and ascertained all hospital admissions for asthma in Scotland from January 2000 through [...]

August 14, 2010

Medical Marijuana Patient Faces Life In Prison For A Half Oz

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A Texas asthma sufferer who went to California for a medical marijuana recommendation and then got busted in June on a Texas highway with small amounts of marijuana and hashish is facing up to life in prison after being indicted by a Brown County grand jury. [...]

October 25, 2010

Bitter Tasting Substances To Relieve Asthma

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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered that bitter tasting substances can relieve asthma better than [...]

October 25, 2010

Woods Thanks Students For Supporting Son's Foundation

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In August, the Princeton High student-athlete died from a severe asthma attack and, as his father put it, "opened my eyes" to the dangers of the condition. [...]

October 26, 2010

'Taste Buds' In Lung Tissue Could Help Ease Asthma Attacks

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According to lead researcher, Dr. Stephen Ligget, bitter substances worked better at easing asthma-like symptoms than any other medication in their trials. [...]

August 14, 2010

Acetaminophen Use In Adolescents = Doubled Risk Of Asthma

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New evidence linking the use of acetaminophen to development of asthma and eczema suggests that even monthly use of the drug in adolescents may more than double risk of asthma in adolescents compared to those who used none at all; yearly use was associated with a 50 percent increase in the risk of asthma. [...]

August 14, 2010

Asthma UK Pushes Dangerous Drug Sold By 'Corporate Partner'

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Asthma UK complains that Nice has not approved the drug Xolair, generically called omalizumab, for use in children under age twelve. It is exceptionally expensive, noted for its dangers, and carries an FDA label warning that it has not been shown to be safe or effective in children under age twelve. Just who is Asthma UK really trying to help? [...]

October 07, 2010

Mother's Stress, Interference May Worsen Child's Asthma

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THURSDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A mother's negative emotions or behavior can worsen the severity of her child's asthma, new research suggests. [...]

August 14, 2010

All About Health: Common Asthma Inhalers

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Salbutamol (Ventolin) Salbutamol (or albuterol) is used to treat bronchospasms like coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath, associated with lung-related issues like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and more lung-related problems. [...]

August 14, 2010

Focusing On Immediate Health Effects May Improve Weight Loss

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Most weight loss programs try to motivate individuals with warnings of the long-term health consequences of obesity: increased risk for cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and asthma. New research suggests the immediate health benefits -- such as reduced pain -- may be the most effective motivator for helping obese individuals shed extra [...]

October 25, 2010

Brady's Smile To Fund Pediatric Asthma Unit

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Annie Hinton announced that Brady's Smile hoped to donate $10000 from the night's proceeds to fund a pediatric asthma unit at the Clearfield Hospital. [...]

August 14, 2010

Children Asthma Care Measures For Parents To Remember | Asth

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[children asthma care measures] Asthma is a condition that afflicts many Americans. While it is one of the common causes of death in children, it thus important that parents know children asthma care measures to help their children cope with this chronic disease. [...]

October 07, 2010

US Approval For Pharmaxis Asthma Test

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PHARMAXIS, which develops treatments for respiratory and autoimmune diseases, has won regulatory approval to sell its asthma test kit, Aridol, in the US. [...]

August 14, 2010

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A subordinating conjunction used to introduce two types of adverbial clause: ? Time: Since we moved here the asthma has got worse. ? Reason: The Germans thought Danzig might be bombed but not Gdynia, since the latter is a Polish city. www.manuscriptedit.com [...]

September 20, 2010

Emma Stone Dishes On 'Easy A' Sex-

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"I had a little asthma attack, without any prior knowledge that I had asthma, during the scene where we had to jump up and down for hours and hours [...]

October 25, 2010

Snobbishness Of Sufjan's Label Would Give Your Kitty Asthma Revolver On Music

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IF YOU'RE only going to buy one album all year, you should make it The Age of Adz , the new Sufjan Stevens release. The album will, rightly, feature in most [...]

October 25, 2010

Asthma And Allergy Cases Up

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Most of them have pre-existing lung conditions such as asthma or have throat and nose conditions. The haze, which has blown over from forest fires in [...]

September 20, 2010

Poor Diet, Inactivity May Lead To Metabolism

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17 (HealthDay News) -- A poor diet and lack of exercise can cause an imbalance in metabolism that may increase a child's risk of developing asthma, [...]

October 25, 2010

Lungs Have Bitter Taste Receptors That May Help Treat Asthma

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The discovery may someday lead to the development of new medications for asthma patients, said medicine and physiology professor Dr. Stephen B. Liggett, [...]

October 25, 2010

Lungs Can Taste! Weird Discovery Points To New Asthma Treatments

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Liggett's team had been looking for new means to relax and open up a person's airway, beyond the standard beta 2 agonist inhalant for asthma patients, [...]

October 07, 2010

Pollution Worsens Asthma Symptoms In Kids

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The findings come from a study of 181 children with and without asthma in the California cities of Fresno and Palo Alto. The researchers found that air [...]

August 14, 2010

Asthma- All About Your Asthma


9 Aug 2010 Get asthma information and other important information about asthma treatment, asthma prevention, asthma medication, asthma research, [...]

October 26, 2010

When Bad Tastes Good: Discovery Of Taste Receptors In The Lungs ...

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“They all opened the airway more extensively than any known drug that we have for treatment of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).” Dr. Liggett says this observation could have implications for new therapies. [...]

August 14, 2010

The Music And Life Of The Genius Vivaldi


by cliff1066? The Music and Life Of The Genius Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was a Baroque music composer, a virtuoso violinist and a Venetian priest. He was born in 1678 in Venice and was taught to play the violin by his father when he was a young boy. When he was in his mid teens, he took an inter [...]


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