Breathing Easy When School Starts
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- About one in four overweight American children have sleep trouble, new research shows. However, regular exercise can help those yawning youngsters.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10 - A short, moderately intense exercise intervention helped third-graders switch to healthier activities such as soccer and swimming instead of watching TV, researchers reported at the
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- School and church social activities may help reduce smoking among disadvantaged children, a new study reports.
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NEW YORK  - Inhaling nitric oxide, or NO  for short, appears to improve blood flow to the lungs in  patients who've suffered a right-sided heart attack, new  research suggests. This, in turn, helps the heart pump better.
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Teenagers who usually fall into bed at 2 a.m. each night and get up a few hours later to make their 8 a.m. classes are putting themselves at risk for more than chronic tiredness.
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NEW YORK  - Snoring "frequently or always"  is common among school-age children, new findings show.
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Never mind kickball or soccer. Some schools are now getting kids to break a sweat with exergaming fitness centers
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(WebMD) The computerized musical device called RESPeRATE helps people breathe slowly and lowers their blood pressure, research shows.
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Drinking apple juice from  concentrate daily may help ward off asthma symptoms in  children, a study from the UK hints.
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NEW YORK  - Dealing with asthma can be hard  on teenagers' emotional well-being, with problems such as worry  and anger being related to poorer asthma control, new research  suggests.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Respiratory infections, not air pollution, cause a significant worsening of health problems in winter for children with asthma, according to researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
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Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that most moms and dads will try just about anythingâincluding spending a lot of moneyâto keep an attack at bay.
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Required exercise at 7 a.m. sharp. No personal televisions or computers. A cafeteria bereft of potato chips and candy bars but full of good-for-you vegetables. Mal Mahedy's new school has tons of rules that other teens would find intolerable.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- As children get ready to head back to the classroom, a new study finds school absenteeism is higher among overweight kids.
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I love the smell of chlorine in the morning. Smells like 10-meter platform diving, which is a welcome slice of air-conditioned heaven on the hottest day of the Olympics.
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Babies who are breast-fed for their first four months of life have a reduced risk of asthma during their first four years, says a Swedish study in the October issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.