Jameson Hospital Introduces New Asthma Care Service

Jameson Health System introduces Jameson Asthma Care, a service dedicated to diagnosis, treatment and ongoing control of asthma.  A free asthma screening and community open house event will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 between 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Jameson Lung Center, first floor Jameson Hospital North Campus, 1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, Pennsylvania......

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Fighting asthma in Buffalo’s poor neighborhoods

Asthma is a serious problem in Buffalo.
We’ve reported in the past about the sky-high asthma rates on the West Side in neighborhoods near the Peace Bridge. The East Side isn’t much better, according to some of those studies......

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Neonatal jaundice linked to pediatric asthma risk

Researchers have found that neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with an increased risk for childhood asthma.
By assessing data from the US Collaborative Perinatal Project, which took place between 1959 and 1965, the team were able to separate the effects of hyperbilirubinemia on asthma risk from those of phototherapy, which has also previously been linked to childhood asthma and was not yet in clinical use at the time of the project.....

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