Asthma Statistics Puzzle Health Officials
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By Lois M. Collins Deseret Morning News  Where you live may play a role in whether your child has asthma. The Utah Department of Health released a survey Wednesday that found great disparity from neighborhood to neighborhood and city to city when it comes to asthma rates.
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NEW YORK  - Attending a special asthma camp can help children improve their asthma management skills, a new study shows. However, more than one third of the children still had poorly controlled asthma, despite being under a doctor's care.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Children with asthma who are exposed to traffic pollution are at increased risk for respiratory problems and reduced lung volumes, says a study that looked at children in  the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, a crossing point into the United States.
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Researchers are puzzled over what may cause high levels of respiratory and throat cancers found in various clusters across the county.
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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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A study carried out in south Wales finds asthma rates among children have quadrupled since the 1970s.
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More U.S. children are seeing doctors for asthma, although already-low death rates from the condition have fallen even more, according to statistics from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday.
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More adults, especially women,  are smoking these days and their secondhand smoke may be  contributing to the asthma epidemic among children in the  United States, results of a study suggest.
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Hong Kong's bad air may be   responsible for a significant jump in children being admitted   to hospital for asthma, a six-year study has found.
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Inhaling a salt-water aerosol, a treatment often used for asthma, may also reduce the spread of germs that can spread disease, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - 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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Asthma is thought to have many potential triggers Damp and mould-infested houses could be the cause of permanent asthma in children, say researchers.Comment
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Traffic fumes are not the reason why people&#39;s asthma gets worse in the winter, say US scientists. Instead coughs and colds are to blame, according to their study of schoolchildren in Denver.
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Only 29 percent of U.S. children  with asthma get the flu vaccine even though it is recommended  to protect against serious influenza complications common with  asthma, federal health officials said on Thursday.
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By JILL SCHENSUL, STAFF WRITER OK, so maybe I was blind as a bat without my glasses on. Maybe I wasn't in military-grade health and could burst into status asthmaticus at any time. And, no, I haven't logged 1,000 hours behind the controls of a jet fighter.
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A link between young children being exposed to some cleaning products and developing asthma in later life has been suggested by researchers.
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Tennessee is among five states pairing up with the federal government to provide asthmatics with air-quality data - via cell phone, pager or e-mail â-hat they may need to plan their day and protect their health.