Asthma sufferers work below their best levels

Almost a third of professionals say their asthma has hampered their career development or held them back at work, according to a new survey.
The Live, Love, Play report by Asthma Australia has revealed that more than half of Australians with uncontrolled asthma take time off work each year because of their symptoms, with 56% doing so at least once a year and 18% taking time off every two months or more.....

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Doctors at Children’s National see asthma as a controllable disease
Like a pair of old sea captains, 10-year-old Noah Sweek and his father, Joshua, keep their eyes trained on the weather.
Noah has asthma. When his condition is exacerbated, the airways in his lungs swell, narrowing the passageways and making it difficult for him to breathe.....

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Early lung infection exacerbates asthma risk in preterm birth children

A Swedish study of children admitted to hospital within the first year of life for lung infection has found that the increased risk this poses for later development of asthma is exacerbated by low gestational age.....

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