Enterovirus Hits Special School for Kids with Asthma

(DENVER) -- Enterovirus 68 has been sweeping through schools in 11 states this week. But a special school in Denver for mostly asthmatic children has been battling the rare virus for weeks -- they just didn’t know what it was called.....

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Few Students With Asthma, Allergies Have School Emergency Plan

FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Too few students with asthma and food allergies have emergency plans in place at school, which can leave the schools inadequately prepared in a health crisis, a new survey finds.....

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Mepolizumab Relieves Severe Asthma, Trials Show

The monoclonal antibody mepolizumab delivered subcutaneously is a promising treatment for patients with severe eosinophilic asthma, according to the results of 2 new studies presented the ERS International Congress 2014 and published simultaneously online in the New England Journal of Medicine.....

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