Researchers rethink inner-city asthma theory

TUESDAY, Jan. 20, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A new study challenges the widely held belief that inner-city children have a higher risk of asthma simply because of where they live.
Race, ethnicity and income have much stronger effects on asthma risk than where children live, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers reported.
The investigators looked at more than 23,000 children, aged 6 to 17, across the United States and found that asthma rates were 13 percent among inner-city children and 11 percent among those in suburban or rural areas.....

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Area principal nearly charged with crime for helping student suffering asthma attack

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — The Woodland police chief says no charges will be filed against a school principal who gave her prescription inhaler to a student having an asthma attack.
Chief Phillip Crochet says Woodland Middle School Principal Cari Thomson may have acted illegally by sharing a prescription medication, but it may have saved the boy’s life.....

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Figs for Asthma?

As my last post indicated that I suffered from asthma.  I was sick before Christmas and still not totally recovered up to now.  I am doing and feeling much better though.  I am grateful that God used those medications to help me.  I can still heard my wheezing, I think I still have a lot of phlegm.....

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