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Scientists Pursue New Treatment For Asthma Sufferers

...d out a new treatment “target” to help millions of asthma sufferers in U.S. The results were reported //foll...major role in the cause of symptoms experienced by asthma patients. The scientists, at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center and Cincinna...

MedicAlert protection Free For Children up to 14 years old

...years old with medical problems such as allergies, asthma and diabetes in participating elementary schools will be provided full MedicAlert protection free. According to this foundation about five per cent of children studying in Canadian schools are afflicted by medical conditions that require MedicAlert...

Beta Agonists May Alter the Immune System

...y School of Medicine suggests that certain inhaled asthma medications – as well as similar chemicals our bod...times of high stress – may worsen diseases such as asthma // , heart failure and lupus that involve inflammation. The scientific team led by Raymond Penn, Ph...

The Immune System May Be Altered By Certain Chemicals

A new research have found out that certain inhaled asthma medications and similar chemicals produced in our ... may worsen conditions like lupus, heart failures, asthma and other conditions that involve inflammation. The scientific team led by Raymond Penn, Ph.D., an...

Teen-age Smokers at Higher Risk Of Developing Asthma

...ve nearly four times the risk of being affected by asthma as compared to those who did not smoke. Similarly,...s, evidence linking smoking and the development of asthma has been mixed. Some of that difficulty lies in trying to separate out confounding variables in adul...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...re currently being assayed to test the activity of asthma and other lung diseases," said Spivack. "But what is rather remarkable here is that DNA can be tested in the air that comes from the lungs and airways, and that it might be possible to use this in diagnosis of lung cancer in particular, and gene-dysr...

Key Signaling Switch Identified in Allergic Disease

...in the United States. Allergic diseases such as asthma and hay fever are problematic for about 30 percent...ase this molecule could revolutionize treatment of asthma and allergic disease. “Our research, for the first time, may represent a treatment strategy to pr...

Study disapproves a new Asthma inhaler

A study assessing a new asthma inhaler revealed that it has problems. This investigation was conducted subsequent to the decision of PHARMAC in 2005 to stop// the funding for Ventolin inhalers in favour of Salamol. In the study, 36 asthmatics using the Salamol inhaler were obser...

Bronchial thermoplasty – a promising treatment for asthmatic

According to Canadian researchers, asthma patients’ quality of life can be drastically impro...he controls, " Laviolette announced. "The need for asthma medication was also significantly reduced and quality of life scores were significantly higher in th...

UV light brings a ray of hope for asthmatics

...olet rays on patients with symptoms and// signs of asthma such as inflammed airways and lungs were studied. ...nown to cause asthma, the likelihood of developing asthma was considerably reduced.Lead researcher Professor Prue Hart opined that exposure to UV rays generat...

New Asthma Medicine Targeting Vulnerable Inner-City Children Tested

...rs hope can reduce the severity and frequency of// asthma attacks in inner-city children, a population known...igher allergen levels and tend to have more severe asthma than children living elsewhere,” said Dr. Rebecca Gruchalla, chief of allergy at UT Southwestern. “W...

Potential New Therapeutic Target for Asthma, Allergies and Cancer

...dy’s allergic response, leading to conditions like asthma and hives. Among the molecules released by mast cells that participate in the allergic response is sphingosine-1-phosphate. This molecule is also implicated in cancer. The work by the VCU investigators opens up a new approach to treating asthma, wh...

Asthma Symptoms Linked to Soot from Diesel Trucks in So. Bronx

... major contributor to the alarmingly high rates of asthma symptoms among school-aged children// in the South... of Public Service. Over the course of the study, asthma symptoms, particularly wheezing, doubled among elementary school children on high traffic days, as l...

Babies with Breathing Troubles at Birth may get Asthma

Babies with breathing troubles at birth may get asthma by the time they are 10 years old, says a study in...ed lung function at birth were more likely to have asthma by the time they were 10. The results held that the researchers took other factors into account, s...

Health of Scot bar workers Improved since Smoking Ban

... researchers 12 bar workers who also complained of asthma before the ban reported some alleviation of their symptoms and a better quality of life following the ban. Editorialist Mark Eisner, MD, MPH, who works at the University of California, San Francisco, points out that the study "confirms and amplifi...

Smoke-Filled Cars: New Fodder for the Next Clean Air Fight

...o sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections and asthma attacks in children. “There is an argument that even exposure for very short periods of time, perhaps even 10 seconds can precipitate asthmatic episodes in children,” Rees said. He added that ventilation won’t likely overcome secondhand smoke pollu...

Dustmites Might Bite Deeper

...ve it vulnerable to other irritants. Episodes of asthma and eczemas have been allied with dust mites eve... to the increase in number of patients affected by asthma worldwide. Nearly 300 million of the world population was suffering from asthma in the year 2005, an...

One in 523 Children and Adolescents Have Diabetes

...te of 1.24 per thousand for cancer, but lower than asthma (120 per thousand). “Diabetes affects quality of life severely for these youth, has a major impact on their families, and has a significant public health impact,” the investigators say in the report. “Persons diagnosed with diabetes before 20 years...

Common Cold All Too Easy To Catch

...s), sinusitis (sinus infections) and can make both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worse. "Most people know about the need for good hygiene, particularly when interacting with cold sufferers. What they may not be aware of, and the study shows, is the need for good personal and surface hygi...

Now Single Jab Could Ward off Asthma, Eczema and Hay Fever

...orted the online edition of Daily Mail. Rates of asthma have doubled in the past 20 years, with the condit...eople's lives. In a trial, 20 men and women with asthma and house dust mite allergy were given the vaccine once a week for six weeks. Eight months later, sy...

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