Xavier expands childhood asthma education program

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Xavier University of Louisiana is expanding a program to teach kids with asthma and their families how to keep the disease under control.

The program will now work with children aged 2 to 18 who get medical care at any Daughters of Charity Services clinic or the mobile clinic run by the Children's Health Fund and Tulane University Health Sciences Center. The mobile clinic works at two schools in the city.

Officials say an allergist will teach Daughters of Charity workers about medical guidelines for athsma, and asthma educators will counsel children and their families.

This is the second phase of a program started last year with a grant from the Merck Childhood Asthma Network to Xavier's Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education.

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