Asthma

Learn about asthma and the early warning signs before asthma gets out of control. Work with your child's doctor. Develop an asthma action plan that works for your child. These 3 items are the critical steps needed in getting control over your child's asthma.

Asthma is a disease that causes your airways to tighten and swell. It is common among children and teens.

An Asthma attack occurs when your child has asthma and their lungs aren't getting enough air to breathe. Your child may cough or wheeze during an attack.

This report from The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) "... reflects new medications that have emerged and updates treatment recommendations for pregnant women with asthma."

Should House Republicans be pushing new legislation that could wipe out the ability of states to ban or strictly limit the use of pesticides and toxic industrial chemicals that can jeopardize human health?

According to the president of Toyota North America, Toyota hybrids have saved 155 million gallons of gas and eliminated 3 billion pounds of greenhouse gases. This is undisputedly good news, and an important reminder of the direction the automotive industry must go.

Mid-July, 2006, Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to begin production of a commercially viable hydrogen engine, which emits almost nothing but clean water vapour into the air.

The hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines are destined for shuttle buses and will be ready for delivery later this year, said Ford Motor spokesman Nick Twork.

After measuring the concentration of formaldehyde in the air of libraries, shopping centres, train stations, and individual homes, researchers at the Physical Chemistry of the Atmosphere Laboratory and the Pneumology Department of the Strasbourg University Hospitals (France), suggest a new value of between 50 and 60 µg m-3 for chronic exposure, because in 10% of the studied locations, the level of formaldehyde was found to be greater than 50 µg m-3. (The World Health Organisation estimates that 100 µg m-3 for 30 minutes corresponds to acute exposure.)

An important and informative website contains information and advocacy for people suffering from disabilities that do not outwardly show.

This is an especially difficult situation, since society sanctions behavior related to disabilities that are visible. When people who have an invisible disability start asking for accomodation, like any disabled person might do, they may be reviled.

Buildings may suffer serious mold damage after storms, but even more serious is the effect that mold can have on health. It can trigger asthma, allergies, sinus, lung and skin infections.

Petitions are circulating in Winnipeg, Canada to call for an independent, external and unbiased committee to do an ethical review of both the municipal and provincial governments' endorsement of Malathion to control mosquitoes.

On June 20, 2006, environmentalists and community organizations challenged in federal court an illegal rule adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency that allows refineries, chemical plants, and other industrial facilities to evade pollution control requirements whenever equipment malfunctions, and whenever they start up or shutdown operations. At these times toxic emissions can increase ten times allowable levels.