Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds (not all of them medical) that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• 1.4 percent of all deaths around the world are caused by air pollution particles http://tinyurl.com/d299qt
  
  
• Reduction in air pollution led to significant improvements in life expectancy (15% or 0.6 years) in the U.S. http://tinyurl.com/cjsbtl
  
  
• Cleaner air prolongs life by 15%, 21 weeks. The bigger the decline, the longer people began living. http://tinyurl.com/d299qt
  
  
• One-third of preschool children develop wheezing. At least 75 percent outgrow the problem by age 6. http://tinyurl.com/aameo8
  
  
• Preemptive Fluticasone for Virus-Induced Wheezing in Children: less oral steroids needed but also less wt/ht gain http://tinyurl.com/dzfutf
  
  
• Oral Prednisolone for Hospitalized Children with Acute Virus-Induced Wheezing: No benefit http://tinyurl.com/ae2u4s
  
  
• Giving steroids to children hospitalized with wheezing because of viral infections does not help http://tinyurl.com/aameo8
  
  
• "It is disturbing to contemplate how many unnecessary courses of prednisolone have been given over the years" http://tinyurl.com/aameo8

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