Nearly £6,000 raised in memory of Alex Hardiment who died after asthma attack at Cleethorpes holiday park

NEARLY £6,000 has been raised for Asthma UK in memory of teenager Alex Hardiment.
Alex, 15, died suddenly after a severe asthma attack at a Cleethorpes holiday park in April.....

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Recently in JoPM: Jessie Gruman tribute, book review on asthma

We don’t tell you often enough here of new pieces in JoPM, our Journal of Participatory Medicine. Of course you can subscribe to the journal on their site, but I hope to specifically point things out here. (See also our past posts in the JoPM category.) Here are two recent ones:.....

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Thunderstorms can provoke asthma

Allergy sufferers often wish for rain, hoping it will wash away all the pollens and molds that stuff up their noses. While rain can indeed provide relief, a violent thunderstorm may have just the opposite effect: An unlucky few may experience a little-known threat called thunderstorm-related asthma.....

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