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Seasonal Flu Vaccine Makes Children Three Times More at Risk of Hospitalization
For all the press that the H1N1 virus and vaccines have received, the biggest "promise" made to calm anxieties felt throughout the nation is that this vaccine it is just as safe as the annual flu vaccine. Should this information make us feel safer? Or...
Tags: seasonal, flu, h1n1, swine, at risk, asthma, child, children, vaccine vaccination, saftey, cdc, who, chronic illness
Eight-year-old pleads for Universal Health Care
Ashantay Lucero's nine-year-old brother died from a massive asthma attack on July 20, 2009, after being terminated from his health insurance plan. Eight-year-old Ashantay is speaking out about the loss of her brother and her hope that everyone receives...
Tags: Zumante Lucero, Healthcare, asthma, congress, Obama, Barack Obama, death notices, Denver, Colorado, Universal Healthcare, Public Option
Toxic Smoke From Puerto Rico Fire a Health Risk
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Thousands of people are living on the outskirts of a burning fuel-storage site. They were urged to relocate Saturday to avoid toxic smoke still billowing from the fire. More than 1,500 people were evacuated after Friday's...
Tags: Puerto Rico, fire, health risk, asthma, danger, evacuate
A True, Truly Haunting Halloween Report: U.S. 2009 News Potpourri
When placed side by side, Halloween news reports take on a nightmarish quality. Some say that Halloween time is the season when the veil between the "worlds" [this world and the world hereafter] is thin. If we use this season as an opportunity...
Tags: Halloween, economy, recession, National Confectioners Association, Church World Service, World Food Day, National Retail Federation, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tooth decay, children, childhood malnutrition, world hunger, asthma, hay fever, cavity, filling, Halloween spending, Halloween retail sales
Keep close watch on your children’s health, says Ismail
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 2 months ago
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Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said parents must exercise additional precautionary measures especially if they have asthmatic children as they are in the high-risk group for Influenza A(H1N1). The number of fatalities remains at 72...
Why Eczema often leads to Asthma?
Many young children who get skin rashes get Asthma later. According to doctors, research has shown that what leads to progression from eczema, or a topic dermatitis to breathing problems. This is also known as a topic march. According to research,...
Tags: asthma, atopic dermatitis, breathing problems, eczema, health care, skin rashes, thymic spromal lymphopoietin, TSLP
New asthma drug may help thousands
Hamilton :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility New asthma drug could help thousands • Antibody may treat severe adult form of disorder • Two small trials suggest patients need less steroids A monthly injection of a new drug could help some of those with one of the severest forms of asthma to control...
New jab hope for asthma sufferers
Leicester :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Mepolizumab, a pioneering drug, helps sufferers with an extreme form of the affliction control it and avoid using steroids, according to studies in the UK and Canada. Professor Ian Pavord, the senior author of the British study, said the results were...
Tags: asthma
NBC 36 Austin (KXAN): Study: Link between birth month, asthma
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Babies born during wet winter months now have more to worry about than the weather, according to a recent study led by UC Berkeley researchers. The results of the study, released in the online issue of the journal Thorax , found that children born during...
Medical News Today: Hospital Cleaning Products And Disinfectants Boost Nurses' Asthma Risk
Houston :: TX :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Regular exposure to hospital cleaning products and disinfectants significantly increases nurses' risks of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The researchers base their findings on...
Tags: asthma, nurse, health, cleaning products
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