Roadside trees trap asthma-inducing pollutants
PORTLAND, OREGON—More trees mean cleaner air, right? Not necessarily, suggests a new study looking at the wooded areas next to roadways. Instead, lines of trees known as “greenbelts” might actually trap a common pollutant from vehicle exhaust—nitrogen dioxide (NO2)—boosting on-the-ground levels of the gas up to 21%. That could make breathing hard for bikers and pedestrians with asthma or other respiratory diseases.....
Read more here: sciencemag.org
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North York man suffered brain damage after asthma attack
When he was an infant, Patrick Hall had a chronic cough. It never went away, and when he was 3, his parents took him to the doctor to get to the bottom of it.
The doctor did all variety of allergy tests, and it turned out, as his mother, Lisa Shaffer, said, "he was allergic to almost everything." He had asthma – very serious asthma. As a kid, he couldn't play sports, and whenever the family went on vacation, they had to be sure to check for the closest hospital in case he had a serious attack.....
Read more here: ydr.com
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Teachers say scheme to give asthma inhalers to schools 'a secret'
Teachers have described as “a well-kept secret” a scheme that allows schools to obtain asthma inhalers for emergencies, writes Evelyn Ring.
No school has received an emergency asthma inhaler for first-aid kits, under a scheme established two years ago by then health minister, Leo Varadkar.
Chief executive of the Asthma Society of Ireland, Averil Power, said the failure of the scheme, combined with some teachers’ reluctance to administer asthma medication, was putting children’s lives at risk.....
Read more here: irishexaminer.com
Friday, August 25, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Aging with asthma – it’s not uncommon
While most people who suffer from asthma experience symptoms early in life, the disease develops at any age. It’s not uncommon for adults in their 70s or 80s to develop asthma symptoms, which can become a serious health problem. According to a new review in Allergy older adults are five times more likely to die from an asthma attack than younger patients.
Asthma is a chronic airway disease that inflames and narrows the airways. While asthma symptoms vary from person to person, those who have suffered from an attack won’t forget the signs:.....
Read more here: devilslakejournal.com
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Racial discrimination may aggravate asthma, study finds
Kids of color suffer more from asthma, and doctors are digging deeper to find out why
African American children are twice as likely as whites to develop asthma, a disease that makes it hard to breathe. Black children also are more likely than white kids to die from the disease. Doctors have been puzzled by these differences. Now a study finds evidence that racial bigotry may play some role in making asthma in black children especially hard to control.
The new data find a correlation between discrimination and hard-to-control asthma. Such a link can never prove racial bias was responsible (see Explainer, just below). But it can point to a possible explanation — one that calls for more study.....
Read more here: sciencenewsforstudents.org
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Pregnant Moms’ Exposure to Pollution May Epigenetically Increase Child’s Asthma Susceptibility
Exposure to environmental pollution, such as diesel exhaust or concentrated urban air particles, during pregnancy could increase a child’s risk of developing asthma via epigenetic mechanisms. Recent research in the Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology suggests that this allergic susceptibility might even be epigenetically passed down for several generations.....
Read more here: whatisepigenetics.com
While most people who suffer from asthma experience symptoms early in life, the disease develops at any age. It’s not uncommon for adults in their 70s or 80s to develop asthma symptoms, which can become a serious health problem. According to a new review in Allergy older adults are five times more likely to die from an asthma attack than younger patients.
Asthma is a chronic airway disease that inflames and narrows the airways. While asthma symptoms vary from person to person, those who have suffered from an attack won’t forget the signs:.....
Read more here: devilslakejournal.com
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Racial discrimination may aggravate asthma, study finds
Kids of color suffer more from asthma, and doctors are digging deeper to find out why
African American children are twice as likely as whites to develop asthma, a disease that makes it hard to breathe. Black children also are more likely than white kids to die from the disease. Doctors have been puzzled by these differences. Now a study finds evidence that racial bigotry may play some role in making asthma in black children especially hard to control.
The new data find a correlation between discrimination and hard-to-control asthma. Such a link can never prove racial bias was responsible (see Explainer, just below). But it can point to a possible explanation — one that calls for more study.....
Read more here: sciencenewsforstudents.org
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Pregnant Moms’ Exposure to Pollution May Epigenetically Increase Child’s Asthma Susceptibility
Exposure to environmental pollution, such as diesel exhaust or concentrated urban air particles, during pregnancy could increase a child’s risk of developing asthma via epigenetic mechanisms. Recent research in the Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology suggests that this allergic susceptibility might even be epigenetically passed down for several generations.....
Read more here: whatisepigenetics.com
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
How Hand-held Inhalers Can Handicap Asthma Treatment
Incorrect use of hand-held inhalers can compromise asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment, but a new meta-analysis of treatment delivery failure finds instructional methods that have improved their effectiveness.
Study lead author James Mahon (pictured), York Health Economics Consortium, York, UK, said the research was not in itself hoping for a particular outcome in terms of which inhaler might be the best, but rather “to be able to understand the scale of inhaler misuse or failure and what factors were associated with misuse or failure".....
Read more here: mdmag.com
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Asthma, more deadly with age, takes heavy toll on older adults
In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch her breath.
She couldn’t.
With mountain vistas around her, Robins felt as if she was drowning. She gasped for air hungrily again and again.
Robins knew all too well what was happening. Something — some kind of plant? something in the mountain air? — had triggered her asthma, a lifelong condition.....
Read more here: chicagotribune.com
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Babies born to obese mothers at 'higher risk of asthma'
BABIES born to obese mothers are 30 per cent more likely to have chest problems associated with asthma in later life, new research shows.
A study of 2,799 women, carried out by Professor Keith Godfrey and colleagues at the University of Southampton, discovered mothers-to-be with a body mass index of 30 or more were more likely to have babies diagnosed with wheezing, prolonged coughs and chest infections in their first year of life.
The research, carried out in collaboration with University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, is thought to provide strong evidence of a correlation between maternal weight and asthma.....
Read more here: express.co.uk
Incorrect use of hand-held inhalers can compromise asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment, but a new meta-analysis of treatment delivery failure finds instructional methods that have improved their effectiveness.
Study lead author James Mahon (pictured), York Health Economics Consortium, York, UK, said the research was not in itself hoping for a particular outcome in terms of which inhaler might be the best, but rather “to be able to understand the scale of inhaler misuse or failure and what factors were associated with misuse or failure".....
Read more here: mdmag.com
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Asthma, more deadly with age, takes heavy toll on older adults
In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and tried to catch her breath.
She couldn’t.
With mountain vistas around her, Robins felt as if she was drowning. She gasped for air hungrily again and again.
Robins knew all too well what was happening. Something — some kind of plant? something in the mountain air? — had triggered her asthma, a lifelong condition.....
Read more here: chicagotribune.com
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Babies born to obese mothers at 'higher risk of asthma'
BABIES born to obese mothers are 30 per cent more likely to have chest problems associated with asthma in later life, new research shows.
A study of 2,799 women, carried out by Professor Keith Godfrey and colleagues at the University of Southampton, discovered mothers-to-be with a body mass index of 30 or more were more likely to have babies diagnosed with wheezing, prolonged coughs and chest infections in their first year of life.
The research, carried out in collaboration with University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, is thought to provide strong evidence of a correlation between maternal weight and asthma.....
Read more here: express.co.uk
Monday, August 21, 2017
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”.....
Read more here: southernminn.com
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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.....
Read more here: wisbechstandard.co.uk
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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.....
Read more here: financialtribune.com
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”.....
Read more here: southernminn.com
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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.....
Read more here: wisbechstandard.co.uk
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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.....
Read more here: financialtribune.com
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Led To 3 Million Deaths Worldwide In 2015: Study
According to a Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, 3.2 million deaths took place due to COPD while 0.4 million people died of asthma in 2015.
NEW DELHI: Two common chronic respiratory conditions- asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- led to over 3 million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in a reputed medical journal has said, highlighting that India, along with three other countries, recorded the highest disease burden due to COPD.
According to a Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, 3.2 million deaths took place due to COPD while 0.4 million people died of asthma in 2015.....
Read more here: ndtv.com
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Autopsy: Forsyth County inmate died from asthma problem
An autopsy shows that inmate Deshawn Lamont Coley died on May 2 at the Forsyth County jail as a result of complications of asthma.
The autopsy report shows that Coley had a history of asthma, and that an examination of his body showed that his airways had mucous plugs and other characteristics indicating “exacerbation of asthma.”
No drugs or alcohol were detected in Coley’s body. The autopsy is dated July 28.....
Read more here: journalnow.com
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How Louisville Used GPS to Improve Residents' Asthma
Louisville, Kentucky has some of the worst air pollution in the U.S., which is particularly bad news for the 85,000 people in surrounding Jefferson County (about 11 percent of the population [PDF]) who have been diagnosed with asthma.
The air quality situation in Louisville won’t be changing anytime soon, but a new study with sensor-equipped inhalers shows that technology can help people with asthma cope, as CityLab reports. The two-year AIR Louisville project involved the Louisville government, the Institute for Healthy Air Water and Soil, and a respiratory health startup called Propeller, which makes sensors for inhalers that can track location and measure air pollutants, humidity levels, and temperature.....
Read more here: mentalfloss.com
According to a Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, 3.2 million deaths took place due to COPD while 0.4 million people died of asthma in 2015.
NEW DELHI: Two common chronic respiratory conditions- asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- led to over 3 million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in a reputed medical journal has said, highlighting that India, along with three other countries, recorded the highest disease burden due to COPD.
According to a Global Burden of Disease study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, 3.2 million deaths took place due to COPD while 0.4 million people died of asthma in 2015.....
Read more here: ndtv.com
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Autopsy: Forsyth County inmate died from asthma problem
An autopsy shows that inmate Deshawn Lamont Coley died on May 2 at the Forsyth County jail as a result of complications of asthma.
The autopsy report shows that Coley had a history of asthma, and that an examination of his body showed that his airways had mucous plugs and other characteristics indicating “exacerbation of asthma.”
No drugs or alcohol were detected in Coley’s body. The autopsy is dated July 28.....
Read more here: journalnow.com
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How Louisville Used GPS to Improve Residents' Asthma
Louisville, Kentucky has some of the worst air pollution in the U.S., which is particularly bad news for the 85,000 people in surrounding Jefferson County (about 11 percent of the population [PDF]) who have been diagnosed with asthma.
The air quality situation in Louisville won’t be changing anytime soon, but a new study with sensor-equipped inhalers shows that technology can help people with asthma cope, as CityLab reports. The two-year AIR Louisville project involved the Louisville government, the Institute for Healthy Air Water and Soil, and a respiratory health startup called Propeller, which makes sensors for inhalers that can track location and measure air pollutants, humidity levels, and temperature.....
Read more here: mentalfloss.com
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