Yourwellness Magazine Investigates How Gene Markers Affect Asthma Treatment

With a new study identifying a genetic marker for eczema in dogs, which may one day lead to better treatments for people with the skin disease, Yourwellness Magazine reported on how a genetic marker effects the treatment of asthma patients......

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Why Are Asthma Rates Higher in Poor Neighborhoods? The Answer Might Be Right Under Our Noses

On a chilly morning in New York City this past February, Kate Weinberger found herself standing in front of a family of French tourists while trying to wrench a hand-drill around a pair of sneakers that had been left dangling from a traffic light above Lafayette Street. A doctoral student at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, Weinberger had selected this SoHo perch, in front of a menswear boutique, as an optimal location for trapping pollen. Now she was trying to secure a strip of steel around the traffic light in order to hang her pollen monitor, and the shoes were getting in the way......

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Asthmatic mom to run 60th Marathon

For more than a decade, Brooke Curran from Alexandria, Virginia has dedicated much of her time to competitive running, particularly in marathons. At the start, running her first marathon was just an item to cross off her “bucket list,” but as the years passed, her passion turned into her life’s work. It was in 2009 that her dedication to running turned into something more. That’s when she founded the RunningBrooke fund to raise money for impoverished families in her own community. At the start, she set a goal for herself to run a marathon in all 50 states and on all seven continents. On track to achieve this inspiring accomplishment in October, Brooke is looking to the future, challenging herself to run 40 more marathons until she reaches 100 marathons and raises one million dollars by 2016.....

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