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Article: U.S. Asthma Crisis Prompts Call for Americans to 'Put Asthma To The Test'; Eighteen Organizations and Wynonna Judd Launch Asthma Action America Campaign to Increase Awareness and Reduce Impact; New Test Helps People Assess Level of Asthma Control.
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- September 25, 2002
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WASHINGTON -- Citing the heavy burden that poorly controlled asthma is placing on Americans, a group of leading health and civic organizations today launched a new national education campaign to improve asthma care in the United States. The Asthma Action America(R) campaign seeks to help the more than 24 million people in the U.S. who have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lifetime(1) better understand and manage the condition.
Multi-platinum recording artist Wynonna Judd helped kick off the campaign, sharing the story of her own experience with asthma. Judd, whose seven-year-old son also has asthma and whose cousin died of an asthma attack, ...