Asthma and Your Child’s Teeth

You wouldn’t think that asthma could affect your child’s teeth.  Perhaps it could affect their lungs, their ability to breathe, or their ease at playing sports, but the teeth seem like a rather odd detail to trouble a child with asthma.....

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Asthma experts form new partnership to halve European asthma deaths

Asthma experts from across Europe are uniting as part of a new partnership launched this week to tackle Europe’s high asthma prevalence and death rates.
The European Asthma Research and Innovation partnership (EARIP) aims to reduce asthma deaths in the continent by 25% within ten years and by 50% within 20 years.....

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Dramatic fall in asthma hospitalisations

Asthma hospitalisation rates have dropped by one-third in children and almost halved in adults over the past decade, national figures reveal.
An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report shows there were just 495 asthma hospital admissions per 100,000 children in 2010/11, 33% lower than in 1998/99.....

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