Virtual pet game targets kids asthma management

Boston-based LifeGuard Games is gearing up to launch a mobile game to teach children to manage their asthma. Wellapets, which is due to launch at the end of February, follows the mold of recently popular virtual pet games like Club Penguin or Moshi Monsters, but with an extra element of chronic disease management.....

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Mercury swing swells asthma cases

CHANDIGARH: Extreme fluctuation in the temperature is causing in a spurt in asthma cases amongst children in the city, with the numbers almost doubling since December/January.....

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Blacks twice as likely as whites to be readmitted for asthma

Black children are twice as likely to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma compared with white children, largely due to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, according to recent study results published in Pediatrics.....

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