New COPD app launched by team behind popular Asthma Health ResearchKit app

LifeMap Solutions has released a new COPD app developed in partnership with pulmonologists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.
If that pairing sounds familiar, its because the same team – LifeMap and Mt. Sinai – developed Asthma Health, one of the first ResearchKit apps to launch earlier this year.....

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Asthma Risk Up Slightly for Planned C-Section Children

Children born by planned cesarean delivery appear to have slightly higher odds of developing asthma than those born through vaginal delivery, researchers report in the Dec. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.....

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Smog causing rise in sinus allergy, asthma cases

Sinus allergy and asthma cases are rising with the increase of smog due to dry and cold weather coupled with development works in the city.
This was disclosed by Head of the Pulmonary Department Services Hospital Dr Kamran Khalid Cheema while talking to APP in Lahore on Wednesday.....

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