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Danish researchers from the Bispebjerg Hospital (BH) presented a new study yesterday, September 25, which appeared to suggest that consuming alcohol in moderate amounts reduces the risk a person has of developing asthma.
These results were presented on Sunday at the annual congress of the European Respiratory Soc... |
26 September 2011
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A renowned researcher was recently able to discover the existence of a molecule that apparently plays a critical role in remodeling human airways. The finding is tremendously important, as it could lead to the development of new drugs against conditions such as chronic asthma. The molecule was discovered by a team of... |
18 April 2011
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Sunlight helps life thrive not just by providing heat and light for plants' photosynthesis, but also by helping the immune system become stronger, and vitamin D produced by the body in response to sunlight is very important for humans' development.A new research carried out by the Massachusetts General Hosp... |
27 December 2010
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A new study carried out by a team of researchers in the Institute for Lung Health at the University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, discovered that there is a risk that the cause of allergies in asthmatic people could be mold growing in their lungs.It appears that many asthmatic people with allergic r... |
14 December 2010
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A team of health researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington, think that there might be link between the early use of paracetamol and the development of allergies and asthma in children, aged five to six years old.A report was made by Professor Julian Crane, based on data gathered from the New Zealand Asthma a... |
29 November 2010
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A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), concluded that the metallic particles within the smoke produced by fireworks can cause serious health issues, especially to people suffering from asthma.The research focused on the San Juan fiestas – 2... |
17 November 2010
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After noticing that allergic asthma and eczema levels are rising in North American children, Canadian scientists wandered just how clean we must be in order to allow good bacteria to develop and protect us from autoimmune diseases.Dr. B. Brett Finlay, a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of... |
29 October 2010
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Vital stages of growth and development in the womb are critical for fetuses, and it would now appear that they also control the chances a newborn will have of being allergies to various substances called allergens. Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a massive surge in allergy cases, which now affect... |
25 October 2010
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You would think that doctors and scientists know all there is to know about the human body but the new discovery of taste receptors within the lungs came to contradict this idea.Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have made an amazing discovery – by accident: they fou... |
25 October 2010
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A team of Japanese researchers, writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine, carried out a research that concluded that stressed out mothers can worsen the gravity of their children's asthma symptoms, especially if the children are very young.The scientists focused on 223 mother... |
7 October 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Researchers say that they could soon have a new avenue of research in investigating new therapies against asthma, thanks to a genetic study that identified “suspicious” genes in thousands of people.The new work was carried out by an international group of researchers, who profiled the genetic information ... |
23 September 2010
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A new investigation has determined that adults who cannot keep their asthma in check by using reduced doses of corticosteroids can gain control of the disease by using a drug that is commonly prescribed to fight chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).The new investigation was supported by the US National Instit... |
20 September 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that asthma patients who eat a lot of food tend to experience worse symptoms than those who are on a lower-fat diet. The investigation uncovered that those eating fast foods, which are generally high in saturated fat, were at a higher chance of responding worse to ... |
17 May 2010
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A collaboration of American investigators, based at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, in Boston, has recently determined that the children of women who are exposed to a lot of stress during pregnancy have high chances of developing asthma later on in life. The conclusion is extrem... |
18 March 2010
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A new scientific study conducted in Europe has pointed out the fact that warm and humid days are very likely to trigger a spike in hospital admissions for people suffering from a wide range of respiratory diseases. The researchers in charge of the investigation, who have published their results in the American Journa... |
4 March 2009
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More and more children in developed countries throughout the world are beginning to exhibit symptoms of asthma on account of high amounts of indoor particulate matter pollution, a factor that has received very little attention from health experts over the years. Now, a new study carried out on children in Baltimore, ... |
20 February 2009
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The school district of Oakland, in California, was the host of a large school program over the past three years, aimed squarely at making children with asthma more aware of their condition and more capable of taking care of themselves. University of Wisconsin (UW) scientist Sheryl Magzamen, PhD, was behind the new st... |
4 December 2008
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A new scientific study concluded that people with asthma could benefit a great deal from a pneumococcal vaccine, as this would greatly reduce their chances of developing various affections related to S. Pneumoniae, including pneumonia, acute sinusitis, meningitis, septic arthritis, peritonitis, cellulites, and brain ... |
3 December 2008
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Following a recently published Norwegian research, which found a moderate connection between C-section births and asthma, the new Swiss study proved that the two were indeed tightly linked, especially if the parents were both highly allergic to various pathogens or had had an asthma history in the past. The respirato... |
2 December 2008
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This natural weakness that babies born in autumn display to asthma is apparently caused by the fact that they are only 3 to 4 months old during the peak of the flu and cold season, which starts in late October. In an underdeveloped immune system, such as that of newborns, this disease can cause proneness to this seve... |
21 November 2008
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Premiere study links diesel fumes to child health conditions for the first time, after Mexican researchers at the Institute Nacional de Sauld Publica conducted a survey of some 147 asthmatic test subjects in Mexico City, aged 6 through 14. The results of the analysis showed that toxic fumes, generated by traffic poll... |
14 November 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies showed that the human rhinovirus (HRV) is not the determining cause of sneezes, runny noses and other cold-related symptoms. In fact, the virus triggers an immune response throughout the body, which causes these reactions. After HRV sets in, it starts rewriting some genes that regulate the p... |
24 October 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Asthma is a chronic condition of the respiratory system which manifests a rapidly increasing prevalence in the developed world. Indeed, one in four urban children in modern developed societies is suffering from this disease, which involves an inflammation of the airways in response to a number of external triggers su... |
30 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Allergy is the most common chronic disease in Europe, where the latest statistical data show that about 80 million adults suffer from some form of allergy, and there's a good chance that by 2015, that number will double. The trouble with allergies is that they can become present in a thousand different ways, app... |
23 April 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Although air purifiers have well developed industry around them and are generally required by patients suffering of asthma and allergies, scientific studies often show that most of these devices are not working correctly, and can in fact cause more harm than good. It may seem obvious at first, but air inside a typica... |
22 April 2008
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In an effort to relieve the city from pollen infestation, Beijing's female poplar trees will receive "sex change operations" in order to stop them from producing flying pollen. The air-borne pollen is overwhelming the city, increasing and worsening allergy and asthma problems amongst Beijing citizens. The techni... |
30 April 2007
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