Asthma

Greater risk

Chinese and international media are abuzz with information on air pollution impacts on the health of athletes. Reports show that with every breath, athletes typically take in 10 to 20 times as much

Publication Date:

14/02/2008

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20080215

pp:

0

Tags:

Air Pollution, Health Effects, Asthma, Children, United States Of America (US), Australia

Air Pollution

How air pollution hits lungs

doctors advise asthma patients against spending much time travelling. Now a London study has demonstrated how air pollution affects the functioning of the lungs in asthmatics in real-life

Publication Date:

30/01/2008

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Diesel

India

Battered women prone to asthma

women who get beaten up at home are more vulnerable to asthma than those not subjected to domestic violence, a study says. The findings have been corroborated by social scientists working on

Publication Date:

29/04/2007

Author(s): Subhra Priyadarshini

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Asthma, Women, Research, India

India

Bytes

leukaemia breakthrough: A study by a team of scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston, USA, shows that cancer stem cells are different from normal blood stem

Publication Date:

30/08/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060831

pp:

0

Tags:

Asthma, Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, Medical Research, Child Health, Neurology, Research, Europe, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US)

Industry

Breaking the skin barrier

Genetic source of eczema and a form of asthma located

Publication Date:

14/05/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Asthma, Medical Research, Genetic Resources, United Kingdom (UK)

India

Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai

Pramod N Bagud pnb , a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved mkv , a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15 hectare dumpsite in Mumbai. They related terrible stories of the area s w

Publication Date:

14/01/2006

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060115

pp:

0

Tags:

Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Waste Disposal, Health Care, Child Health, Mumbai

Health

Body burden: health and environment in India

A degraded environment brings with it a set of health problems - some new and some, which have posed a challenge over the years. Presenting Body Burden, a compilation of reports from Down to Earth on the health impacts of environment pollution in India.

Publication Date:

Dec 2005

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Indoor Air Pollution, Pesticides, Asthma, Cancer, Malaria, Encephalitis, Kala Azar, Infectious Diseases, Diabetes, Obesity, Environmental Health, PCBs, Industrial Disasters

India

Fishing fish drug

A further twist has occurred in the controversy surrounding the Bathini Goud family's famous fish medicine, which promises a cure for asthma. The Indian Medical Association (ima) has decided to

Publication Date:

29/06/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050630

pp:

0

Tags:

Fish, Asthma, Health Care, Legislation, High Court, India

India

Fish and foul

Chemical analysis of the famous fish medicine to treat asthma, administered free of cost to millions every June in Hyderabad by members of the Goud family, has revealed it contains no known

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040815

pp:

0

Tags:

Fish, Asthma, Drugs, India

India