Massachusetts Antismoking Plan is Huge Success

The Aintismoking plan that offers almost free teatment for poor residents of Massachusetts has already seen huge benifits in both the heath and health finance sector. Since its establishment in 2006, an attempt...

JAXPORT IGNORES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IT CAUSES

JAXPORT IGNORES ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IT CAUSES! Regardless of the environment, Jaxport has blocked myself for speaking out for the environment and has made it known it could careless what harm it does to the...

Intensive exercise may be bad for your lungs

"It is believed that in the winter there is nothing like sports and exercise  to improve your health and breathing.. yet this advice may be wrong as it is recently being proven that intensive exercise may be...

Parasitic Gut Worms May Protect Against Allergies

There is a link between having parasitic worms in your stomach and being protected from allergies, shows a new study conducted in Vietnam. The study looked for a link between hookworm and other types of parasitic worms and the rates of allergies in humans. The researchers...

Asthma sufferers in the US will continue to suffer

I have had asthma for over 10 years. At the onset of this horrible disease, I was spending every weekend in the hospital ER receiving steroids via a needle in my butt. This went on for several months. The doctors didn't actively try to find a preventative medication for me...

The Asthma Drug Facility brings down cost of drugs

The Asthma Drug Facility brings down cost of drugs El Salvador, Benin and other low- and middle-income countries have a special reason to celebrate World Asthma Day on Tuesday, 5 May, this year. A purchasing mechanism run by the Paris-based International Union Against...

World Asthma DaY: Asthma control is appalling in countries

World Asthma Day (5 May 2009)Asthma control is appalling in most countriesMore than 300 million people around the world have asthma, and the disease imposes a heavy burden on individuals, families, and societies.The Global Burden of Asthma Report, indicates that asthma...

GPS-equipped inhalers track the 'no-go' places for asthmatics

How about an iPhone app that tells you where NOT to go if you suffer from asthma? An entrepreneur and scientist David Van Sickle from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using the GPS technology on medical inhalers to track when the drug dispensers are being used by his...

Asthma Inhalers in US Must go "Green" by 2009

All asthma inhalers in the US must use hydroflouroalkane (HFA), a "greener" and more earth-friendly chemical compared to the old chemical, chloroflourocarbon (CFC) which damages the earth's ozone layer.  Old...

Autumn Babies More Prone to Asthma

With more sources of internal pollution such as out gassing from plastics, pet dander and food allergies.   The health of babies is also at risk for the time of year they are born, although the study urges...

If You Have Asthma Get Your Flu Shot

Contracting the flu is bad enough it you have healthy airways, but if you have asthma, it can be life threatening.  The statistics coming from the US are sobering -- 36 000 deaths per year.  Getting an...

Chlorinated Pools 'Cause Asthma' , children at risk in swimming pools

Children and swimming pools Children exposed to high clorinated Swimming pools are likely to develop Asthma. The chlorine agent travels easily through the thin skin of children, a second danger. Find out:...

Flatulence gets DUI suspect charged with assault

"SOUTH CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrol officer has been charged with battery on a police officer. Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg was...

Athletes Asthma caused by low levels of sweat, saliva and tears

It's important to be careful when exercise is practiced, even when all kinds of precautions are taken, bodies react differently to exercise related stress. I can identify with the following article...

Study: 70K may suffer post-9/11 stress disorder

Nearly 3000 people, mostly civilians, died as a result of the worst attack on the nation since Pearl Harbor, and thousands more were physically injured. Tens of thousands have or will develop health problems...

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