Bushwick's Struggles With Asthma: What's Poverty's Role?

In the summer of 2009, City Limits spent several weeks in the 11237 ZIP code in Bushwick, Brooklyn—the area that contains the geographic center of New York City—to gauge how the neighborhood had changed, for better or worse, during Mayor Bloomberg's first two terms. This spring a group of students at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism went back to Bushwick for a set of stories you can read here. This article on health in the neighborhood is one of their reports.....

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Caps staff breathe deep for asthma charity

Five staff members from the Perth headquarters of Caps Australia completed the RAC Freeway Bike Hike for Asthma, contributing to $190,000+ funds raised by the event for asthma support and research......

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Shatter: I failed to complete breath test for gardaí because of asthma

Justice Minister Alan Shatter was embroiled in fresh controversy after it emerged he failed to complete a roadside breath test.
The minister said that his asthma prevented him from doing so at a Garda checkpoint.....

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