Every day, 20 asthma sufferers go to the emergency department and three are hospitalized.
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As part of the wider trend of milder European winters, December pollen is troubling asthma sufferers as far north as Scandinavia.
Not surprisingly, in the United States, asthma sufferers are often in low-income communities near major pollution sources, such as freeways or factories.
The UK has one of the highest rates of allergies in the world and Scotland has more teenage asthma sufferers than any other country.
More than 300 families of asthma sufferers from the South Coast volunteered to take part in the project and were screened for the gene.
The latter include not only ice fishermen and snowmobilers, but also asthma sufferers, hydropower generators and migratory birds that would find less food as forests change.
But just how much priority each trust gives to an issue, such as services for asthma sufferers or even breast-feeding support, is determined by so-called population plans.
Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the University of Iowa recently found that bacteria in household dust are a major problem for asthma sufferers.
About 60% of the 17 million U.S. asthma sufferers are allergic asthmatics, meaning that their asthma attacks can be triggered by allergic reactions to pollen, dust or other normally harmless substances.
Dr Pearson said that if Vitamins C and E were shown to be effective in helping asthma sufferers, they might also act to slow deterioration of lung function in other people.
Products based on marine organisms have already found their way onto the market and are now being prescribed to sufferers of asthma, tuberculosis, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis and male sexual impotence, among others.
If approved, the treatment would be injected into adult sufferers of allergies and asthma.
Not only is the pollen apocalypse on its way, three of the state's major cities made the Asthma and Allergy Foundation's annual list of the 10 worst places for spring allergy sufferers.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation also releases a list every year of the worst cities for fall allergy sufferers.
Recently, the asthma pill was approved as an allergy medicine, and Merck is betting that it can convince hay fever sufferers to take it instead of antihistamines like Claritin, available cheap and without a prescription from Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), and Zyrtec, sold with a prescription by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
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