Eating right with asthma

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and current health statistics indicate that asthma is the most chronic childhood disease in Arizona, affecting 9.4 percent of children and being a leading cause of absences from school.....

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Traffic-Induced Asthma: Could your child be part of the eight percent?
Eight percent of childhood asthma cases are a result of living close (within 250 feet) to major roadways, concluded a new report out this week.  Of the many studies associating traffic pollution with asthma, this one evaluating 27,000 asthmatic children in Los Angeles County really drives home the health hazard of pollution from busy roadways (for more, see this and this).....

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Anaphylaxis Answers Save Lives And Regrets

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 28, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What would you do if faced with a child experiencing a life-threatening allergic reaction? It's a question Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics' national network of Anaphylaxis Community Experts, or ACE Teams, pose in free training programs for educators, families and policymakers across the country.....

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