Hyperventilation -- breathing too fast and too deeply -- could be the underlying cause of asthma, making it worse by lowering the level of carbon diox...
ABC News | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
In this first monthly segment, we look at the increasing body of research into the effects of yoga in a variety of conditions such as cancer, asthma, ...
Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.
George Halvorson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
We can't fix care in America until we have universal coverage. We can't afford universal coverage if we don't fix care. They are a package. They both need to be done.
Dana Ullman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
This concept of using small doses of what might cause a problem in order to help prevent or heal the person is an ancient observation of healers/physicians all over the world, and it is the basis for homeopathy.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Today, health care spending represents 17% of our GDP, but perhaps it is time that we view our children as more than just a sales channel for Big Pharma's money making medicine.
The Observer | John Vidal | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green
Huge dust storms, like the ones that blanketed Sydney twice last week, hit Queensland yesterday and turned the air red across much of eastern Australi...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
Find out how Sarah Beatty, a determined new green business woman, has earned Green Depot's moniker as America's leading one-stop shop for building solutions.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is scrapping a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of ...
msn.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Swimming in a chlorinated pool may boost the odds that a child susceptible to asthma and allergies will develop these problems, a study indicates....
Javier Sierra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Big Coal and Big Oil are determined to cover our ears so we can't hear about the overwhelming advantages of the climate and energy bill, especially for us Latinos.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.
treehugger.com | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
A comparison of medical records from 81,186 single child births to air pollution levels in the area revealed that high pollution exposure raised the r...
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 08.06.2009 | Home
To effectively reform healthcare in the U.S., we must change not only the way we practice medicine, but also the type of medicine we practice.
Susan Weissman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
My son, Eden, was three years old before he revealed the limits of his lungs (read: allergic asthma.) It happened after what already seemed like a lifetime of severe food allergies.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
As you crusade for the health of our children, please know that mothers around the country stand beside you. Our collective abilities can and will bring the change that our children deserve.
Javier Sierra | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.
Paula Gordon | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
I don't think being outdoors should be life-threatening. Southern Company, a power company behemoth providing some 5% of the United States' electricity, acts on a very different premise.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living
A vaccine profiteer personified (he is now a multimillionaire from his partnership with Merck) Dr. Offit continues to make intellectually and factually dishonest remarks regarding vaccine safety.
Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.
Paul A. Offit, MD | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living
If parents choose not to vaccinate their children, not only do they put their own children at risk, they put others at risk as well.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Cayne went to Tulane Medical Center during asthmatic distress and was given a dose of prednisone, a drug which she had suffered a bad reaction to before.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living
Ten years ago, we didn't worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into school with our children, and we didn't medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma.
Yahoo! News | Julie Steenhuysen | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
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nytimes.com | JANE E. BRODY | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living