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Ozone Flag Theatre Program

noemail@texasasthma.org — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Ozone Flag Theatre Program receives press coverage

GHASP/Mothers for Clean Air were featured on Channel 2 tonight.
In case you missed it: http://www.click2houston.com/video/19920340/index.html

Minor League Team Makes Major League Effort to Strike Out Asthma

noemail@texasasthma.org — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Click link below for press release.

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Help The RockHounds Strike Out Asthma

noemail@texasasthma.org — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Help The RockHounds Strike Out Asthma
May 15th, 2009
Greg Bergman / Midland RockHounds

The Asthma Coalition of Texas will be present at the RockHounds game on Friday, May 22nd. Help the RockHounds and the Texas Coalition Strike Out Asthma!

Click on link below for information:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090515&content_id=585433&vkey=pr_t237&fext=.jsp&sid=t237

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Asthma Awareness Day: Tyler, TX

noemail@texasasthma.org — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:00:00 GMT

Contact: Toni Moore Extension: 7079 Asthma Awareness Day set for Saturday, May 16, at Bergfeld Park in Tyler Free health screenings and fun activities are the focus of Asthma Awareness Day, to be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 16, 2009, in Bergfeld Park in Tyler. The event is sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and the East Texas Asthma Coalition. Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects about 300 million people worldwide, according to the National Institutes of Health. In the United States, more than 22 million people have asthma. Almost 7 million of those are children under the age of 6. Each year in the United States, asthma causes about 13 million missed school days for children and 10 million missed work days for adults, the NIH says. Free pulmonary function testing and pulse oximetry will be offered at the event, and physicians will be on hand to answer questions about asthma. In...

Hospital Admissions for Asthma Diagnosis Totals More than $2.4 Billion

noemail@texasasthma.org — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:00:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kim Davis, Executive Director 10:00 AM CST, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 877-299-8384 Ext. 1 HOSPITAL ADMISSION FOR ASTHMA DIAGNOSIS TOTALS MORE THAN $2.4 BILLION Focus changes to Self-Management Strategies to Prevent Hospitalizations (AUSTIN, TX) -- On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, The Asthma Coalition of Texas, in partnership with Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D – District 26), Representative Myra Crownover (R – District 64), Dr. Susan Rudd Bailey, President-Elect Texas Medical Association and local asthma coalitions from across Texas, kicked off National Asthma Awareness Month with a World Asthma Day Rally focusing on managing your asthma and the changes in the guidelines for the prevention and management of asthma that emphasize self-management on the South Steps of the Texas Capitol Building. An estimated 1.4 million adults and 586,000 children living in Texas reported having an asthma diagnosis,...

Asthma Blow Out!

noemail@texasasthma.org — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: March 25, 2009 Veronica L. Lawson 210-804-7090 210-912-6143 (cell) MEDIA ADVISORY What: The North East ISD Department for Safe and Healthy Schools will host an Asthma Blow Out! Health Fair to educate the community about the effects and control of asthma. The Asthma Blow Out! will focus on asthma education, control and four components – awareness, medication, environment and education. Who: More than 1500 participants from the MacArthur High School cluster community including nurses, PE teachers, parents and students; and vendors. Physicians will also attend and teach educational sessions: Dr. Ted Freeman, (10 Commandments of Asthma session); Dr. Victor Estrada, (Asthma Triggers session); pediatric pulmonologist: Dr. Kelly Smith, (Medications session);...