Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches.

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Parents and teachers play a critical role in caring for children with asthma. Our goal is to provide resources to ensure that everybody in a child's life has the information they need to manage their asthma on a daily basis.

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We're disappointed in the lack of action on the part of the federal government. Nothing's happening. I don't know how I can put it any other way. The federal government has been sitting there and watching the world go by.

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I think we can attribute that to cleaner cars and enforcement of the Clean Air Act, and improved control technology that has reduced hydrocarbons.

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With regard to particulates, dust and soot in the air, that has been linked to an increase in lung disease and lung cancer.

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Exposure to ozone is like getting a sunburn on your lungs.

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At the most senior level the relations are non-existent. At lower levels, contacts are spotty. We have evidence that Bosnian Serb liaison officers are packing their bags and departing from some locations.

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Ozone is an irritant. It's like getting a sunburn on your airways.

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In the 1990s Maine had one of the highest youth smoking rates in the country among teenagers - and between 1997 and 2005 it declined almost 60 percent.

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