Could cooking with gas worsen your asthma?

A health lecturer has said doctors tend to mistake asthma for pneumonia, especially during the diagnosis stages, and called for studies in the relation of cooking materials to respiratory disease.
Dr Rebecca Nantanda, a lecturer at Makerere University, said in most cases asthmatic children are treated for pneumonia and keep coming back to hospitals because the real disease was not treated.....

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10-year-old missing from Inglewood without her asthma inhaler

INGLEWOOD — Inglewood police asked for the public’s help today finding a 10-year-old girl who wandered away from her foster home without a cell phone or an inhaler for her asthma.
Shauna Evans was picked up from school around 6 p.m. Tuesday by her foster mother. When they arrived home, the mother was helping smaller children in the house and Shauna “walked away and out of sight”.....

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Lawsuit filed in asthma death of Northern California inmate

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The family of an inmate who died in an Alameda County jail from an asthma attack has filed a lawsuit claiming the man didn't receive adequate medical treatment.....

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