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Asthma Study

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that a new study claims to have found a correlation between the amount of traffic in Atlanta and the number of children making trips to the hospital due to asthma attacks. The study looked at reduced traffic during the 1996 Olympic Games and the corresponding decrease in recorded asthma attacks.

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