When children with asthma go swimming, the benefits can be many and long-lasting

Contemporary Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Wardell, Colleen ^a   Huang, Shih Wen ^b   Isbister, Clair ^a  

^a Asthma Foundation of New South Wales   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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