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Cleaner Air, Bigger Lungs

  • Posted on: 25 March 2015
  • By: nshuster
In the latter half of the 20th century, Los Angeles had, by many measures, higher levels of photochemical air pollutants than any other major city in the United States. To address this problem, the California Air Resources Board and its partners became leaders in quantifying the health effects of air pollutants and in aggressively implementing pollution-control strategies. Authored by: Douglas W. Dockery, Sc.D., and James H. Ware, Ph.D.

CDC Awards Funding for Comprehensive Asthma Control

  • Posted on: 16 January 2015
  • By: wekantalk (not verified)
This September, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded funds to 23 state health departments under the Funding Opportunity Announcement for “Comprehensive Asthma Control Through Evidence-based Strategies and Public Health—Health Care Collaboration” for a 5-year period. These awards focus on strategies to provide asthma care, such as connecting the awardees with innovative health care partners to reach populations that are disproportionately impacted by asthma.

Webinar: Pioneering Medical Perspectives on Childhood Asthma

  • Posted on: 30 September 2014
  • By: AAFA
Despite multiple medical advances over the past several decades, the treatment of childhood asthma is remarkably unchanged and our understanding of the disease has, in many areas, raised more questions than answers. Only recently have new perspectives emerged that are beginning to dramatically change the way we approach asthma diagnosis and treatment.