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Asthma: What Brought on the Epidemic

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1
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34
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Asthma is the most common chronic disease to affect children all over the world. But researchers don’t know why. Meet researchers who are investigating possible environmental and social culprits. Find out if the bacteria in farms could help explain the mystery. Today more than 30 million people are suffering the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease – and that number will quadruple by 2050 as our population ages. Now, researchers in the United States think they have found that a gene may hold the key to a cure. How do you prepare someone who is becoming blind? Find out how adults are learning to live in a world without sight with physical and psychological training.

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