American Lung Association in Ohio Helps Students with Asthma Return to School

Lung Association Recognizes Asthma-Friendly Schools and Offers Back-to-School Checklist for Students with Asthma
COLUMBUS OH (08/15/2013)(readMedia)-- As summer winds down, families across the nation are beginning to prepare for the new school year. A new school environment can sometimes be difficult for children with asthma. This back-to-school season, the American Lung Association highlights tips for families of children with asthma and stresses the importance of crafting a plan to properly manage asthma in a school environment......

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Education fears over pupils with asthma and diabetes

SCHOOLS are failing children with chronic health conditions such as asthma and diabetes, and putting their education at risk, it has been claimed.
Scotland’s commissioner for children and young people, Tam Baillie, said it was a “matter of urgency” that new guidance be produced for teachers......

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The pathway to asthma winds through toll-like receptor 4

HOUSTON – (Aug. 15, 2013) – Dr. David Corry compares the allergic response to a computer.
"The core of a computer is its CPU (central processing unit) or chip. We are looking for the chip that drives allergic disease," said the professor of medicine, chief of the section of immunology, allergy and rheumatology in Baylor College of Medicine's department of medicine and director of the Biology of Inflammation Center at BCM. In a report that appears online in the journal Science, he and colleagues at BCM describe an important component of that chip – a molecule called toll-like receptor 4 that plays a key role in prompting the innate or immediate response that drives allergic disease and asthma......

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