More than 300 million people worldwide are affected by asthma, 25 million in the U.S. alone, and for most of them, allergy is an underlying cause. But why do some individuals allergic to airborne allergens develop asthma ...
Oct 5, 2016
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House dust mites, which are a major source of allergens in house dust, can cause asthma in adults and children. Researchers from MIT and the National University of Singapore have now found that these mites have a greater ...
May 3, 2016
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Scientists have discovered a new way in which the lungs operate during asthma that could lead to new treatments for the disease.
Apr 4, 2016
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Researchers have provided new evidence that developing asthma can be linked to pregnant women and infants being exposed to paracetamol; by testing that the association was not simply due to the medical complaint for which ...
Feb 9, 2016
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The most dangerous times of year for children with asthma are soon after their schools reopen after a break, and a new study finds that cold viruses are largely to blame.
Feb 8, 2016
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New research by scientists at UBC and BC Children's Hospital finds that infants can be protected from getting asthma if they acquire four types of gut bacteria by three months of age. More than 300 families from across Canada ...
Sep 30, 2015
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Researchers at VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium) and Ghent University have successfully established a causal relationship between exposure to so-called farm dust and protection against asthma and allergies. ...
Sep 3, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, working with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Genentech, have discovered new insights into ...
Aug 19, 2015
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In people with asthma, the cells that line the airways in the lungs are unusually shaped and "scramble around like there's a fire drill going on." But according to a study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, ...
Aug 13, 2015
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Current asthma medications, which work by suppressing inflammatory signaling by immune cells or by dilating the airways, can stop working over time. A study from Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and ...
Jun 25, 2015
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