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City kids with asthma lose out on preventive treatment
12-04-2006 · EurekAlert!A new study by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere suggests that only one in five inner-city children with chronic asthma gets enough medicine to control dangerous flare-ups of the disease.
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