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New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

... now breathe easy. Literally. A new vaccine called grass pollen vaccine has been shown to be effective in i... came down by 49% in the group, which received the grass pollen vaccine, the medication requirements came down by 80% and the asthmatic chest symptoms like c...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

... now breathe easy. Literally. A new vaccine called grass pollen vaccine has been shown to be effective in i... came down by 49% in the group, which received the grass pollen vaccine, the medication requirements came down by 80% and the asthmatic chest symptoms like c...

Hay fever may be cured by self-hypnosis

... yrs with moderate to sever allergic rhinitis from grass or pollen were taken in the study. All these people have been sufferers of hay fever for more than two years. Random parallel group was used as control for the study that went on for two years. The researchers had taught them self-hypnosis for about...

The Falling Sperm Count In Men

...g difficulty with erections. Smoking cannabis or grass or marijuana also cause sluggish sperms and impair them. Caffeine : Although one is not entirely sure about caffeine research has shown that caffeine appear to make sperm sluggish. But conflicting research has also found that caffeine actually ...

Fertility Treatment Can Be Affected By The Use Of Marijuana

...tor and her colleagues investigated the effects of grass on 221 couples that underwent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) treatment for infertility. The study showed that 10% of men and women smoked marijuana in the year before the fertility procedure, and 3% of women and...

Trial To Create Childhood Asthma Vaccine Launched

...r the tongue. These drops consist of house dust, grass and cat allergens. The vaccine if developed will be given to children who are at an increased risk for developing asthma. "There's a 12-month treatment period and then we're following the children through until the age of five, so there is a four- to...

Effective Vaccine Found For Dust Mite Allergy

...rward and develop ones which are effective against grass pollen, cat hair and tree pollen. The current treatments for hay fever allergy such as antihistamines and inhaled steroids, suppress symptoms temporarily. The Cytos vaccine is thought to give a permanent cure as it consists of an empty virus filled...

Prediction of a Collective Sneeze

...crossover between the birch pollen season, and the grass pollen season....

Lawn Mower injuries - children needs precaution

... for blades to stop completely before removing the grass catcher, unclogging the discharge chute, or crossing gravel roads. 'Though mowing the lawn can be a great form of physical activity, it can also cause harm if the proper precautions are not taken,' explained Richard F. Kyle, MD, orthopaedic surgeo...

Doctors Predict an Asthma Epidemic Triggered by Thunderstorms

... to the ground. As asthmatics with an allergy to grass pollen breathe in the concentrated pollens there is the onset of an asthmatic attack. During one epidemic hourly trapped pollen counts in a thunderstorm were found to be between four to 12 times higher than normal. Doctors and other research expe...

Environmental Surrounding Affects Human Behaviour

...d low water-use plans and sprinkler-irrigated turf grass xeric: low water-use plants (both native and non-native), individually drip-watered native: Sonoran Desert plants and no supplemental water "We wanted to explore how the surrounding landscape affects people, both in terms of their perceptions an...

Allergy Shots May Soon be a Thing of the Past.

...rhus University in Denmark proposes that Grazax, a grass allergen tablet, rapidly dissolves under the tongue and this could be an easier alternative for patients. Grazax has already been approved in Sweden and its manufacturer, ALK-Abello, is applying for approval in other European countries. NLA...

Anti-allergy vaccine based on 'hygiene hypothesis'

...produce reactions against harmless substances like grass pollen. This theory was exploited by a Swiss-bas...100-fold reduction in the patient’s sensitivity to grass pollen after a 6-weeks course of injections. A previous study reveals drug’s efficacy ag...

DNA vaccine for ragweed allergies

... that people who were vaccinated and who also have grass allergies in the spring still experienced symptoms from that particular allergy. " He said, "The next step for this vaccine is phase III trials, after which the vaccine could receive government approval if all goes well. It could potentially become...

A winning shot is here to battle ‘tennis elbow

... afflicting just men or women wielding racquets on grass or clay courts. This ailment starts with the degeneration of the a tendon of muscles that control movement at wrists and hand which is located at the elbow joint. Dr. Allan Mishra, co-author of this study has exolained to the media that the new tr...

Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Few Takers in China

A case of other side of the grass is greener; the west is all taken up with traditional Chinese medicine, whereas, in China, home grown remedies //are being abandoned for seemingly better western medicines. Recently a proposal is doing the rounds to formally put out traditional Chi...

Vaccine against grass pollen allergy introduced by ALK-Abell

Patients in Germany who suffer from allergy to grass pollen will now benefit from a suitable vaccine ag...mpany focusing on allergy treatment. Allergy from grass pollen prominently disrupts quality of life affecting concentration at work or school dampening soci...

Doctors in Scotland Prescribe Homeopathic or Herbal Remedies

...emedies, as it shows what is actually happening at grass roots in Scottish general practice” adds Dr Jeffrey Aronson, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal and Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at Oxford University. “In September 2006 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) introduced new ...

Kerala: God’s Own Country Prevails Against AID

...KSACS intends to take HIV prevention programmes to grass root levels. MST...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

...The vaccine pill contains small amounts of Timothy grass pollen; main allergens in hay fever, and are to be taken daily, eight weeks before hay fever season. This pill follows the hay fever vaccine injection. This too contains protein derivatives of pollen allergens and is based on immunotherapy too. ...

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