Physician Education Improves Poor Kids' Asthma
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Physician participation in an interactive asthma seminar leads to enhanced asthma care and improved outcomes for children with asthma from low-income families, a group at high-risk for poor asthma-related outcomes, according to a study in the journal Chest.
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Children experience fewer asthma problems when their homes are scrubbed, filtered, vacuumed, exterminated or otherwise protected from allergy triggers, a new study of inner-city kids in Dallas and six other US cities suggests.
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Congress's bid to renew a program for poor children revives debate over healthcare.
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Finding out how prescription drugs affect children isn't easy, even for pediatricians, a new study says.
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When children with asthma are  seen in the emergency room, the doctors there can at least  start them on maintenance medication that can help prevent  future flare-ups, according to a report in the medical journal  Pediatrics.
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NEW YORK  - Preprinted order sheets and access to a pediatrician are among strategies that can reduce the rate of return visits to the emergency department for children with asthma, a group of doctors from Canada has found.
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New guidelines unveiled by U.S. federal health experts on Wednesday for tackling asthma carve out a new age group, children 5 to 11, for unique treatment.
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Traffic pollution may increase the risk of children developing asthma if they already have a genetic vulnerability.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Black children living in disadvantaged neighborhoods fall behind the equivalent of one year or more of schooling simply because of where they live.
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New guidelines unveiled by U.S.  federal health experts on Wednesday for tackling asthma carve  out a new age group, children 5 to 11, for unique treatment.
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A provocative study from Harvard Medical School suggests that, as a group, older doctors know less, provide lower-quality care, and may expose patients to greater risks than physicians recently out of medical school, a conclusion that an accompanying editorial declares should be "a wake-up call to the medical profession."
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The new guidelines are the first to recognize that children ages 5 to 11 with asthma require different treatment than do adults.
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NEW YORK  - Parents of children with asthma  may have good intentions, but they often miss the mark when  targeting triggers that set off their children's asthma,  researchers report.
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Far too few young children get annual flu shots, particularly those who are most at risk of serious illness or death because they have asthma or other chronic diseases.
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LONDON  - Ordinary household products like bleach, carpet cleaners and paint strippers can cause asthma in children. A study which followed more than 7,000 children since birth found that wheezing and
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Children living in smoggy areas have retarded lung development which puts them at risk of diseases, say researchers.
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For children who need to go to the ER because of a severe asthma attack, giving them an intravenous infusion of magnesium sulphate along with conventional medications provides an additional benefit, Hong Kong doctors report.