WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to chemicals at work causes many cases of asthma, especially for plumbers, spray painters and hair stylists, a new study finds.
Researchers in Sweden found many workers are exposed to toxic substances while doing their jobs despite public warnings that they use protective equipment.....
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Last week, we began the series on asthma with the basics, as it is important for everyone to understand how asthma affects children and what are the common misapprehensions about it. This week, Dr Tanmay Amladi focuses on the devices that asthma requires a pateint to have with him all the time - inhalers. The doctor differetiates between this and nebulisers, the other device, and how their uses have different approaches.....
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Air quality improves, asthma increases: An EPA mystery
There’s mystery in the air.
The number of children exposed to tobacco smoke and hazardous air pollutants has decreased, but national asthma rates have increased, according to the third edition of “America’s Children and the Environment,” released by the Environmental Protection Agency last week.....
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