Home visits show difficulties of asthma for low-income adults
Home visits show a link between low-income adults with asthma and a higher rate of asthma-related deaths and hospitalizations.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Researchers are studying how low-income adults with asthma are at a higher risk of death and hospitalization due to their living circumstances.
The study, from the Community Asthma Prevention Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, looked at the living conditions of low-income adult asthma patients and the impact on their asthma.....

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New procedure helps combat some forms of asthma

HOUSTON - Seventeen million American adults struggle with asthma, a narrowing of the airways.
For most, medication can help control the symptoms, but for about 5 percent of those patients, there is very little that really works. However, for the very first time, there is a surgical procedure that is helping these patients breathe easier.
Jenn McBride, 38, is one of the patients benefiting. She spends a lot of time in the kitchen. For the first time in years, everyday activities don’t wear her out.
“I just couldn’t get through the day because I couldn’t breathe,” McBride said.....

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Winter weather is bringing more than a chill to people with asthma

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - As temperatures begin to drop, asthma attacks begin to rise.
The cold air makes it harder for people to breathe and causes the lungs to swell. And remember how you were going to clean those carpets on Monday and its now Friday? Well, Dr. Zachary Frey says that dust and carpet mites are huge triggers in causing an asthma attack.....

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