Dusty secrets could help asthma sufferers

Researchers in the University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute have entered into a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Consumer & Personal Products and Janssen Biotech Inc. to leverage foundational discovery research aimed at determining environmental factors that underlie asthma and allergies.....

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Aerobic exercise could ease asthma symptoms

Aerobic exercise appears to curb the severity of asthma symptoms stated a study published the journal Thorax.
The researchers from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, compared the impact of doing aerobic training and breathing excercises with just breathing exercises on the severity of symptoms in 58 people with moderate to severe asthma. The particpants aged between 20 and 59, were randomly assigned to either a 30 minute yoga breathing exercise twice a week for 12 weeks or the breathing excercise plus a 35 minute indoor treadmill session twice weekly for the same period of time.....

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In Her Own Words: Living With Juvenile Asthma

Lynn is the 32-year-old mother of Josh, who is 12 and has asthma. Josh has two brothers at home, the younger of which has Tourette syndrome. Lynn, a stay-at-home mom, has her hands full with her three boys.....

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