SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Asthma

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Asthma By Caty Weaver Broadcast: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS.

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Children's Asthma Not Eased by Anti-Reflux Drug Seventeen-year-old Alaina Kvapil was diagnosed with asthma when she was 13. When you have an asthma attack, your airways actually close up and people dont realize that you cant breathe, you cant get the

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some new parents have started giving their newborns what's being called a bacterial baptism. The idea is to try to help their babies develop healthy microbiomes, the collection of friendly bacteria that inhabit everyone's bodies.

科学美国人60秒 SSS Breast-Feeding Benefits Babies with Genetic Asthma Risk

Babies benefit from breast-feedingthey have a lower risk of infections, vomiting and diarrhea and less of a chance of later developing adult onset diabetes. And now a study finds that being breast-fed helps protect infants who are genetically predisp

SSS 2009-05-20

This is Scientific Americans 60-second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator. It has long been thought that some of its hunting prowess was due to a mouth teeming with bact

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World Asthma Day takes place every year to raise awareness of asthma throughout the world. It is organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). Many other healthcare groups pool resources to help GINA spread the word. All of these groups prepa

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Influenza, or the flu, attacks up to one billion people annually. In the US, it kills 20,000 annually, most of whom are children or elderly. Occasionally the flu becomes pandemic: in 1918, it killed 20 million people worldwide. The flu is a very cont

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Theres definitely methane on Marsand there are seasonal variations of how much is being released into the thin Martian atmosphere. Which means that Mar

SSS 2009-01-02

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Mosquitoes carry nasty diseasesdengue fever, west nile, malaria. But the microbes that cause those diseases dont attach themselves to the mosquitoes an

VOA常速英语2008年-Allergies, Asthma on the Rise in Asia

By Steve Herman New Delhi 24 April 2008 Adopting modern lifestyles, urbanization and even climate change are among some of the factors being blamed for an alarming rise in asthma in Asia. From New Delhi, VOA Correspondent Steve Herman has a preview o

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Around the world, cesarean births are on the rise, and many experts think that's a bad thing. Now, a new study looks at one way that babies delivered by c-section are different. The number of surgical deliveries has been increasing for years. Some ce

VOA标准英语2012--New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma

New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per

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Early-Life Microbes Ward Off Asthma太干净也不是好事儿 Asthma is a very prevalent disease in our society now. It wasnt so 50 years ago. And we now realize that the very early life microbes seem to have set you up or not for asthma. 在现在社

Asthma gene found in African Americans

BEIJING, August 1 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a genetic mutation unique to African Americans that links to heighten their asthma risk, according to reports published on Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics. Researchers of Univers

U.S. asthma rates continue to rise: CDC

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Xinhua) -- People diagnosed with asthma in the United States grew by 4.3 million between 2001 and 2009, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(预防) (CDC). In 2009, nearly one

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New Study Could Change Treatment for Asthma

New Study Could Change Treatment for Asthma Global treatment guidelines for asthma could change as a result of a study led by a researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their i