Asthma Follow

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 ...

(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[...]