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Day care centers urged to be vigilant against flu
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Will you start seeing thermometers at day care centers? The government is urging the nation's 360,000 child care providers to be vigilant about sending home children who may have the flu - and the main symptom to ...
Antibiotic prescribing should be standardized across Europe to help tackle resistance
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory illnesses should be standardised across Europe to help reduce inappropriate prescribing and resistance, say experts in a study published on bmj.com today.
Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemics
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already ...
Respiratory illnesses and dog bites a concern for travelers to China for 2008 Olympics
Jul 30, 2008 |
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As 600,000 visitors and athletes gear up to travel to China for the 2008 Olympic Games, travelers should be most concerned about respiratory illnesses and dog bites, according to report by an Emory University travelers' health ...
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Low birth weight linked to long-term respiratory problems
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Infants who weigh less than five and a half pounds at birth often enter the world with a host of medical complications, including respiratory problems. New research shows that these respiratory problems may persist well beyond ...
Secondhand smoke increases hospital admissions for all types of infectious diseases
May 28, 2008 |
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Children exposed to second hand tobacco smoke are more likely to get severe infectious diseases and have to be admitted to hospital, finds research published online ahead of print in Tobacco Control.
Childhood wheezing with rhinovirus can increase asthma odds 10-fold
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Infants who experience viral respiratory illnesses with wheezing are known to be at increased risk for developing asthma later during childhood. It is not known, however, whether every type of respiratory virus that produces ...
Possible link between baby swimming and breathing problems in children
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Children with mothers who have allergies or asthma have an increased risk of wheezing in the chest if they take part in baby swimming before 6 months of age. This is shown in a new study using data from the Norwegian Mother ...
Hong Kong air pollution equals record high
Oct 24, 2009 |
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Hong Kong air pollution has equalled a record high registered in 2000, triggering a warning for people with heart or respiratory illnesses, according to the Environmental Protection Department.
Common cold virus came from birds
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology. ...
Beyond the terminal: Palliative care
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Palliative care was once reserved for patients when all curative options had been exhausted and death was imminent, but now it is considered an integral part of the care that should be available to patients with serious respiratory ...
New research reveals 41 percent increase in children's short stay hospital admissions
Oct 15, 2009 |
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The number of children being admitted to hospitals in England for short stays increased by 41 per cent between 1996 and 2006, according to research published in PLoS One today. The authors of the study, from Imperial Colleg ...
Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom
Oct 30, 2009 |
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For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...
Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes
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Jan 25, 2008 |
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Common human viruses are responsible for outbreaks of respiratory disease that have led to the decline of endangered chimpanzees in the wild, according to a study reported online on January 24th in Current Bi ...
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