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Waiting to Inhale; As asthma cases soar, doctors are finally beginning to understand how this chronic disease works. New treatments are on the horizon.
Byline: Tara Pepper (With Mike Kepp in Rio de Janeiro, Joanna Chen in Tel Aviv, Avrham Karshmer in Los Angeles, Sarah Schafer in Beijing and Tracy McNicoll in Paris)
Kenia de Marco has lived most of her life in constant fear of the tightening of the throat that precedes an attack of asthma. She's been getting them since she was 8, but the worst year was 1997, when she was 17. On four separate occasions, she was taken away in an ambulance and hospitalized for a week. Her doctors could never say with any certainty what was causing her affliction. Was it the stress of her father's recent death? Or mold and dust mites at home? As a precaution, they had de Marco ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Waiting to Inhale; As asthma cases soar, doctors are finally...