Kid's Play Camp offers safe summer fun for youngsters with asthma

Running around in P.E. class was a difficult task for Emily Pearson. So was sleeping, which usually meant waking up in the middle of the night coughing and needing to use her inhaler.
At 5 years old, Emily had experienced three asthma attacks – the tightening of muscles around the airways.....

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Bogra asthma centre project in limbo

The budgetary allocations for construction of a proposed asthma centre and a diabetic hospital in Bogra were refunded due to failure of the health ministry to hand over necessary land for the projects.
The news of the refund was confirmed by a highly-placed source in the Bogra office of Public Works Department (PWD), which is responsible for construction of the facilities......

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Test is able to predict if child will grow out of asthma

PARENTS whose children suffer from asthma may soon be able to predict whether they will be afflicted by the respiratory condition for the rest of their lives.
New research from Otago University's long-running multi-disciplinary study, which has followed about 1000 participants born between 1972-73 since birth, found those with childhood asthma and those who were genetically predisposed to the disease were more likely to be lifelong sufferers......

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