Wheezing

Reducing utility costs, hospital visits

2013-01-01 17:28:00

The first winter after Danielle Smith bought her house in North Baltimore, the 35-year-old schoolteacher wondered if it even had a furnace, it was so cold and drafty. Now, with almost all new windows and several other energy-efficiency retrofits, Smith...

Hopkins to study genetics of asthma in African-Americans

2011-12-29 17:32:00

Johns Hopkins researchers, in the largest study to date, will map the genetic code for asthma in people of African descent in hopes of better understanding why the disease and other allergy-related ailments disproportionately afflict that population....

Researchers look to genetics to understand African American-asthma link

2011-12-29 04:00:00

Researchers working to discover why African Americans disproportionately suffer from asthma are planning to map the genetic code of 1,000 people of African descent in four years. The Johns Hopkins-led team of experts in genetics, immunology, epidemiology...

Report: Baltimore's air cleaner, but still among most polluted

2012-04-25 06:50:00

Baltimore's air is healthier to breathe than it used to be, but the region still has some of the nation's worst smog and soot pollution, according to the American Lung Association. In its annual report on the state of the nation's air, the advocacy group...

University of Maryland launches beehive project in city cemetery

2011-08-27 14:15:00

An overgrown graveyard downtown, where some of Baltimore's early historical figures rest in walled isolation, buzzes now with new life. Just inside the locked gate of Old St. Paul's Cemetery on Martin Luther King Boulevard, honeybees zip in and out of...

Grand Prix aims to be green, but challenges remain

2011-09-01 18:04:00

When race fans roll into town for the Baltimore Grand Prix this weekend, they can expect to find the Inner Harbor course lined with more than 1,200 recycling bins, and their drinks will be served in cups made of biodegradable corn instead of plastic. The...

Dealing with childhood asthma

2011-04-07 00:00:00

Of the nation's 22 million people with asthma, six million are children, according to the National Institutes of Health. In Baltimore, as many as one in five children suffers from the condition and many go untreated. Dr. Keyvan Rafei, head of pediatric...

Swine flu claims the life of a child

2009-10-01 00:00:00

Destinee Alicia Parker was an aspiring artist who loved animals, Lil Wayne and scary movies. She and her two sisters were known as the "Parker Posse" at Montebello Elementary/Middle School. And although she was healthy, she died of swine flu Tuesday...

Clearing the air about asthma

2013-05-20 08:14:03

Dr. Greg Bensch would like to see people change their thinking about asthma. Asthma is a chronic disease, but most people don't look at it that way. A chronic disease is a long-lasting health condition that can be controlled but not cured, such as...

How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round

2013-05-05 16:22:00

For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...

Genetic marker indicates if child is likely to develop asthma after a cold

2013-04-24 00:00:00

University of Chicago researchers said they have identified a genetic marker that will help identify children most likely to develop asthma after they catch a cold. The researchers found that 90 percent of children under age 3 who wheezed after catching...

Air Quality: Health issues rise with bad air

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Newcomers to Southcentral Pennsylvania sometimes visit Dr. Donald Harper at Medical Arts Allergy's offices in Carlisle or Mechanicsburg looking for answers. They arrive at the office with classic allergy symptoms, but tests for animal, mold or pollen...

in 1769. Not only did he have a leg infection that troubled him the rest of his life, but he also had asthma (Page 15). Though Serra died in 1784, the Franciscans kept adding missions until 1823, when the 21st, and last, opened in Sonoma.

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