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Asthma adds to the challenge for some Olympic contenders

As thousands of athletes prepare to breathe deeply in one of the world's most polluted cities, one group of Olympic competitors is contemplating a special challenge. Beijing's Olympic Green is shrouded in smog Monday, just days before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games. Pollution has been a worry ever since Beijing was picked in 2001 to host the Games in which athletes, many with asthma, will be performing at peak. In this image reviewed by the Chinese military, a power station is seen Saturday...

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Self-medicating at Olympus

Traffic moves through haze in Beijing Monday. (Wire Photo) My Olympic drug bag is bulkier than usual this time. Jammed in among the various antibiotics, painkillers, antacids and sundry unguents are two inhalers and some industrial-strength Visine. When Dr. Kim, my modernly thorough internist, noticed during my annual physical that I had a bit of lingering congestion in my lungs, she promptly wrote out prescriptions for Fluticasone and Albuterol. Fluticasone is a corticosteroid used to treat ast...

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Held Suspect

I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia - my mother, my younger sister, and I - visiting my great grandfather on my mother's side of the family. For my sister and me, it was our first time traveling that far from home, and our first time in a city like Philadelphia. Everything amazed us, from the size of the buildings, downtown to the narrow little houses on my great great-grandfather's street, with no yards...

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New Study on Public Health Benefits of Paid Sick Leave Just In Time for California Legislation

By Jonathan Heller, Ph.D and Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH A new study released this afternoon finds that 70% of restaurant workers must choose between staying home when sick or getting a pay check, because they don’t have paid sick days. Almost 40 percent of California’s workforce—more than 5 million workers—do not have the right to take paid time off from work when they are sick. For the first time, researchers have decided to take a close look at the health costs and consequences of the stat...

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Bacteria Going Away, Asthma on the Rise...

Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that naturally exists in our stomachs, is on the decline in people, but now asthma is on the rise—are they related? Dr. Martin Blaser M.D., chairman of medicine and microbiology professor at New York University, thinks so. Via NPR: Several years ago, researchers proposed the provocative idea that bacteria living in the human stomach could be responsible for the development of some stomach ulcers — and the doctors found that treating those bacteria, H. pylori,...

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Oxygen deprivation, dog guilt and real estate porn

This is Day Four of one of these crappy, bad-air-quality summer stretches where I’ve been pretty much physically incapacitated and exhausted by a run of breathing difficulties. Yeah, life’s a bitch, and my earliest memory is my dad carrying me into the ER struggling to breathe, back in the bad old days when good asthma [...]

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Is your house killing you?

If the walls of your home could talk, they would say you have gas. Gasses are going off in our homes, creating indoor air pollution that can be more damaging than the air we breathe outdoors. The World Health Organisation believes indoor air pollution is one of the top 10 risks for the global disease. There could be radioactive radon leaching out of your granite kitchen benchtops. There may be cancer-causing formaldehyde or benzene oozing out of MDF, particle board and laminate furniture. And le...

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Sharing some projects

These last two days I have been hit with a cold or an asthma flare. I am not sure which and it has the same effect. I have to stay inside out of the heat and humidity. I live in the middle of the prairies that are normally known for being dry, but when I dared to step outside yesterday for a quick trip to the store, it was like stepping into a sauna. Ugh! If my lungs would actually function properly, this would be a great time for taking the girls to the spray park or setting up the sprinkler in...

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Duke Researchers I.D. Link Between Reflux And Asthma

DURHAM, N.C. -- Working in laboratory experiments with mice, Duke researchers have determined that inhaling tiny amounts of stomach fluid that back up into the esophagus can drive the development of a ...

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Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080716

(Light blogging this week as I work on my house.) “Plutoid” 2005 FY9 has been named Makemake after the Rapa Nui god of fertility. You can see the status of the Dwarf Planets here. Kuiper Belt Objects Credit: NASA Intestinal bug H. pylori can cause ulcers, but apparently not having it can increase children’s chances of developing asthma. Newly discovered [...]

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