New game app keeps teens on track taking their asthma medicine

Wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath -- asthma medicines help keep such symptoms at bay. But you have to take the puffs and many teens forget or ignore the regimen.
That may seem like no big deal-- an emergency inhaler can solve the problem -- but missing those daily doses can lead to emergency room visits, hospitalization and even death.....

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Asthma More Common Among Children Born to Mothers Exposed to Pollutants

An investigation carried out by researchers in Denmark has found that children born to mothers who were exposed to persistent organic pollutants during pregnancy are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma by the time they reach the age of 20.....

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Neonatal jaundice linked to pediatric asthma risk

medwireNews: 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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