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School aged children are warned asthma spike expected (Blue Mountains Gazette)

ACM spoke to Dr Louisa Owens, paediatric respiratory physician and National Asthma Council Australia Guidelines Committee member, about how to help children ...

"Children should be seeing their GP a couple of times a year, to make sure their asthma is well controlled," she said. "Talk to your child about breathing and the feeling in their chest," she said. Reassure children that using the preventer makes a visit to the hospital less likely, and that seeing a doctor can help, Dr Owens said. "Sometimes children are scared to say they're having an asthma attack because they're worried about going back to hospital," she said. "You're going to notice a change in asthma control after a six week break," she said. The "strict routines" of asthma treatment tend to relax during the summer holidays, so children re-entering the school environment have lower defences, Dr Owens said.

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FTSE 100 expected to make a cautious start to the week (Proactive Investors USA & Canada)

In the US on Friday, Wall Street ended higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.3%, the S&P 500 up 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.7%. In Asia on ...

Signs of hope in the housing market? In Asia on Monday, the Japanese Nikkei 225 index was down 1.1%. [QinetiQ Group PLC (LSE:QQ.)](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/LON:QQ./QinetiQ-Group-PLC/) rose 0.8% after securing a £80mln contract with the Ministry of Defence and Marks and Spencer PLC was another early riser after reports that it plans to open 20 new stores. It said it was now looking for a syndicate of investors to pull together £45mln. In China, the Shanghai Composite was up 1.0%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 0.6%. [Rightmove PLC (LSE:RMV)](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/LON:RMV/Rightmove-PLC/) reporting prices rose in January by 0.9% after a series of falls. Volatility has been low across the other majors, mainly due to the closed US markets for Martin Luther King Day. The average price for a house in the UK rose a modest 0.9% in January according to a survey by property website, He said huge investment in renewables was needed, including using more hydrogen for example. Marks & Spencer PLC is stepping up its store opening programme with the launch of 20 "bigger and better" new shops throughout Britain and the creation of 3,400 jobs, according to a report in The Times. “Things are looking up for the UK, and the footsie is the flavour of the month, but there is a risk this could be a short-lived crush.” “The push to revamp the store estate also shows it recognises the importance of having sites which are appealing for shoppers to visit and are in the right places to attract healthy footfall.”

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