Word: asthma
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...Researchers find that 95% of kids who develop ALLERGIES TO NUTS--a potentially life-threatening problem--suffer from asthma, eczema or hay fever. They warn children with any of these problems to lay off peanut butter and other nutty foods...
...Thunderstorms, say scientists, can trigger ASTHMA attacks--even in people who have never had one. Water and wind gusts release asthma-triggering particles from pollen...
Cooking with gas, British researchers say, appears to increase a woman's--but not a man's--risk of developing respiratory ills such as wheezing, asthma and hay fever. Women may simply be more susceptible to the by-products of gas combustion--or they may just spend more time at the stove...
...THREE MONTHS, Rose Muchway, who is sixtysomething, and her husband Earl, seventysomething, travel more than 800 miles from their home north of Eureka, California, to Los Algodones, Mexico. They go not because they are particularly fond of the tiny border town (pop. 5,000), but because Rose suffers from asthma and is dependent on inhalers that cost $83.70 each at her local pharmacy. In Los Algodones she can pick them...
...friend of mine, who has asthma, had a really bad asthma attack, and I took her down to the nurse," Deutsch said...