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Protecting Navajo children with asthma: A case study
Joncita Todechine, a mother of four who lives on the Navajo Nation, knows all too well what can trigger asthma symptoms in her daughter Ashley. But she didn’t always. She recalls a time in 2013, living in Phoenix and attending medical assistant school, when she rushed her then-three-year-old to the Indian Medical Center. “She was really sick,”...
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Commonly used three-drug regimen for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis found harmful
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has stopped one arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug...
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Pulmonary Hypertension
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Pulmonary hypertension is a disease in which pressure rises in the arteries that carry oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath during light physical activity (for example, climbing a flight of stairs), tiredness, chest pain, and a racing heartbeat. As...