To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

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To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

March 18, 2013 | NPR

Nothing sends more kids to the hospital than asthma. So when doctors at Children’s Hospital in Boston noticed they kept seeing an unusually high number of asthmatic kids from certain low-income neighborhoods, they wondered if they could do something about the environment these kids were living in. [...]

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