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Air quality hurting Yountville veterans
Yountville :: CA :: USA | about 2 hours ago
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Dear editor, Your Nov. 14 report on Yountville’s nose-wrinkling pond is incomplete in several ways. • There is a community of some 2,000 people, those who live and work at the Veterans Home of California, just across the tracks that are also impacted...
Tags: Yountville, Asthma, Old soldiers' home, Olfaction, Breathe, Yountville California, Military personnel, Veteran, Health Medical Pharma
Folic acid supplements linked to asthma in newborns
Tehrān :: Iran | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Pregnant women are urged to take a supplemental dose of 400 micrograms of folic acid per day in the month preceding and during their first trimester of pregnancy, in bid to reduce the risk of neural tube birth defects in the unborn. "Our study supports...
Tags: folic acid, acid supplements, Iran, Tehrān, Asthma, Pregnancy, Congenital disorders, Folate deficiency, L-methylfolate, Obstetrics, Dietary supplements, Health Medical Pharma
Illness rises with heat
Ama :: LA :: USA | about 22 hours ago
Credibility Lyme disease, depression and respiratory illness may increase with global warming, researchers at Harvard Medical School say. Climate change from the burning of fossil fuels will add to risks to public health, said Paul Epstein, associate director of...
Tags: Harvard Medical School, climate change, Harvard's Centre for Health, kidney stones, Ama, Air pollution, Chemical engineering, Lyme disease, Asthma, Chronic, Global warming, Malaria, Environment, Health Medical Pharma
H1N1 riskier than regular flu for asthmatic kids: Study
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility The researchers looked at the charts of 58 children admitted to SickKids between May 8 and July 22, 2009 and compared them to 200 children admitted with seasonal influenza between 2004 and 2009. Twenty-two per cent of children admitted with H1N1 had asthma...
Tags: children admitted, h1n1 influenza, seasonal influenza, India, Mumbai, Pulmonology, Vaccines, Asthma, Influenza vaccine, flu pandemic in Malaysia, Pandemics, flu pandemic, Influenza, Health Medical Pharma
Maternal depression may aggravate childhood asthma
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility They looked at 262 mothers of African-American children with asthma and found that children whose mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms during the six-months of the study. While those whose mothers reported fewer depressive...
Tags: depression, frequent asthma, asthma symptoms, depression symptoms, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Bipolar spectrum, Major depressive disorder, Allergology, Obstetrics, Mood disorders, Asthma, Abnormal psychology, Health Medical Pharma
Heat is a health hazard in Sydney
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility As the state bakes for the second day running, NSW Health says high ozone levels, caused by car exhaust and industrial fumes, are a big problem. NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant says everyone should be aware of the link between high temperatures...
Tags: NSW Health, NSW Community Services, ozone pollution, Australia, Sydney, Environmental chemistry, Ozone, Ozone depletion, Asthma, Air Quality Index, Air pollution, Chemical engineering, Disinfectants, Environment
H1N1 riskier than regular flu for kids with asthma
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Children with even mild asthma are in danger of serious illness if they catch the H1N1 flu, according to a first-in-Canada study of kids hospitalized with the pandemic virus. �Asthma is a chronic inflammatory process of the airways and it�s likely that...
Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Asthma, Pandemics, flu pandemic in Malaysia, flu pandemic, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza, Health Medical Pharma, Science and technology in Canada, Nuclear accidents, Chalk River Laboratories, National Research Universal Reactor, Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment, Nuclear medicine, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Nuclear technology in Canada
Stop-smoking guides offered
Miami :: FL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility How vaccines are tested for safety The FDA OK'd swine flu vaccines on Sept. 15 after receiving preliminary results from five clinical trials on more than 3,000 volunteers at sites including Baylor University College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's...
Tags: lung cancer, Miami, Asthma, Colorectal cancer, Cancer, Stroke, Aging-associated diseases, Acetates, Aspirin, Health Medical Pharma
H1N1, asthma a dire combination in kids
McLean :: VA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Berndsen had what his parents believed was a little asthma flare-up...I knew it had gotten to be more than we could handle at home," says his mother, Jennifer Berndsen. She had suspected flu but wasn't sure. His school had had significant numbers of children...
Tags: T.J. Berndsen, Jennifer Berndsen, Erwin Gelfand, Carolyn Kercsmar, McLean, flu pandemic, Asthma, Swine influenza, Oseltamivir, flu pandemic in Malaysia, Pandemics, Influenza, Epidemics, Health Medical Pharma
Job losses raise asylum intake
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 4 days ago
Credibility Unemployment has been credited with the increase in the number of outpatients at Suva’s St Giles psychiatric hospital. The hospital’s chief medical officer Dr Odille Chang could not provide the figures, but she confirmed that “we do know our outpatients...
Tags: St Giles, Dr Chang, Fiji Islands, Suva, Major depressive disorder, Asthma, Patient, Medical terms, Abnormal psychology, Bipolar spectrum, Health Medical Pharma
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