State's high school coaches wise up on asthma in athletics

Beginning this school year, high school coaches around the state will be better equipped to work with athletes with asthma.
The Minnesota State High School League joined the Minnesota Department of Health’s program that launched a new online module called, “Athletes and Asthma: The Coach’s Role” that is required for the state’s 22,000 coaches working with athletes in grades 10-12 to complete prior to their 2017-18 sports season.
The module, according to a press release from the MDH, “teaches coaches about asthma symptoms and how to respond if a student athlete has an asthma attack”.....

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March student urges the Prime Minister to make life saving asthma treatment free

A March student has started a campaign calling on Theresa May to make asthma inhalers free.
Kira Gibson is starting her second year of college and is getting ready for university next year.
Now she is 19 she has to pay for prescriptions but she said she often cannot afford them yet it is essential life saving equipment.
She has launched a petition calling for the life saving treatment to be free.....

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Asthma Deaths Declining Worldwide

The number of cases of asthma has increased worldwide since 1990, however fewer people are dying from the condition, a major new study has shown.
A new Global Burden of Disease study looked at the impact of the two most common respiratory diseases worldwide - asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - between 1990 and 2015.
It found that while the number of cases of asthma increased by 12% during this period - from 318 million in 1990 to 358 million in 2015 - the number of deaths fell during the same period by just over 26% - from 550,000 to 400,000, Irishhealth.com reported.....

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