Tag: ASTHMA

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You wouldn't expect GPS tech to have an impact on asthma research, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison's David Van Sickle says it will -- he's planning on tagging sufferers so he can learn when and where they reach for their inhalers. The data will hopefully make sorting out environmental triggers of the disease much easier -- it took scientists eight years to prove that soybean dust near the ...

So guess what? It looks like sitting in front of that TV will give your kid asthma. Okay, so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but a new study published in the medical journal Epidemology finds that regularly plopping your youngster down in front of the TV for hours at a time may be a health hazard. Televisions don't radiate asthma rays or lung-destroying radiation by themselves, but they aren't ...