(Soccer update: Ghana's goalie is great!! He made two great saves with 10 minutes left and Ghana scored a goal in the 84th minute after a Serb handball for the first-ever African win. My prof must be proud! Those guys can ball!)
True story: When I was a child I had asthma and the pediatrician said it would go away. Decades later during a check-up, doctor asks me if I have a slight case of asthma. I said no, I was told that would go away. He laughed. He said it was only mild (can still play hoop, after all), but there is a touch of it. Not a problem at all.
Others not so lucky:
"Scourge of asthma is acute in N.E.; Treatment lags, study contends" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff | April 26, 2010
Not only does New England have the nation’s highest rate of asthma, but the disease remains poorly controlled in most patients — routinely causing trips to the hospital and lost days at school and work, according to a study being released today.
Sigh. Came up a little short there. I gue$$ $omething is bugging me.
The Asthma Regional Council of New England, an independent agency underwritten by the federal government and foundations, finds that roughly two-thirds of New England’s 1.3 million people who have asthma regularly forfeit sleep, wind up in the emergency room, and frequently puff on inhalers intended as drugs of last resort.
I am ALREADY NOT TRUSTING IT!!!
Sniff-sniff.....
Not an inhaler, folks -- don't need one.
The report is the third since 2003 to show that New England adults have the highest rate of asthma in the nation.
I'm started to hyperventilate now!
But this year’s study is the first to portray with such precision the breath-robbing consequences of asthma in the region, where nearly 1 in 10 residents have the disease....
Is there NOTHING they WON'T STEAL?
What is this, another FRONT-PAGE, agenda-pushing article to get a CARBON TAX?
I'm getting short of breath now, but it is because SOMETHING STINKS!
Asthma is in many ways a metaphor for the nation’s health system, a chronic illness that should be relatively easy to tame in most patients. Instead, economic, social, and environmental forces combine to make it a persistent hardship for many.
Hey, clean up the POLLUTION and maybe we could ALL BREATH EASIER!
Patients, for example, often suffer because they can’t afford drug copayments or because no doctor or nurse has taken the time to warn them about the microscopic culprits that can inflame the disease....
I wanted single-payer, but.... and look at the Globe fob the blame on to you, sick citizen.
An annual telephone survey that asks thousands of people about their overall health has chronicled asthma’s march, yielding alarming results....
THAT is what the GOVERNMENT is BASING their figures on?
Then it is like polls where EXCLUSIVELY ELDERLY PEOPLE who are going to HAVE PROBLEMS BREATHING are surveyed (cellphones of kids not on list)!
Hey, what is ONE MORE AGENDA-PUSHING piece of crap from this government and MSM anyway?
They are SO FULL of THEM!
It has remained a medical mystery why New England has a higher incidence of asthma than the rest of the country.
I'll spell it out for you: P-O-W-E-R-P-L-A-N-T S-M-O-K-E-S-T-A-C-K-S from the M-I-D-W-E-S-T!
Some specialists theorize cold weather keeps families inside drafty old houses vulnerable to asthma triggers including dust mites, cockroach droppings, and mold.
Great disguise; looked like a newspaper to me.
And what cold weather?
See: Massachusetts had its warmest spring in the 116 years
Warm, sunny weather has led to an early strawberry crop in Maine
Global temperature at its warmest ever
I don't know what you are talking about with this cold weather bit when it is warmer than ever -- or so you keep telling me, Glob.
Others suggest there’s something in the air that’s especially nettlesome for asthmatics.
Yup, their IS something in the air, all right.
Researchers used sophisticated statistical models to see if differences in education, income, or other factors — perhaps patients were more knowledgeable and, thus, sought care more aggressively — explained higher rates in New England, but no single cause emerged....
Of course, the same liars are telling us global fart-misting is a certainty.
The reason they can not connect pollution as the cause is because corporate profit$ mu$t be protected at all cost$!
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Yeah, I am having trouble breathing and it isn't the asthma!
