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About 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life went on to develop asthma by age 6, according to a study to be published March 28 by the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-childhood-asthma-tied-combination-genes.html Immunology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:00:07 EST news283618892 New research conducted in 10 European cities has estimated that 14% of chronic childhood asthma is due to exposure to traffic pollution near busy roads. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-road-traffic-pollution-passive-childhood.html Inflammatory disorders Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:00:01 EST news283105325 The first study of the effects of Sydney's air pollution on the development of asthma has been carried out at UNSW. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sydney-pollutants-childhood-asthma.html Health Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:22:50 EST news282817314 (HealthDay)—Lead levels in young children in the United States have declined dramatically in recent decades, according to government figures released Friday. But the new report on the environment and children's health also found a rise in asthma among kids. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-kids-asthma-cases.html Health Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:10:01 EST news278355378 The introduction of smoke-free legislation in England was immediately followed by a fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma symptoms, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-smoke-free-law-linked-decrease-child.html Pediatrics Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:00:02 EST news277979803 A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers reveals that an especially virulent strain of the gut bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) isn't implicated in the overall death rate of the U.S. population, and may even protect against stroke and some cancers. The findings, based a nationwide health survey of nearly 10,000 individuals over a period of some 12 years, are published online, January 9, in the journal Gut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bacterium.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:02 EST news276883496 Triclosan - an antibacterial chemical found in toothpaste and other products - can contribute to an increased risk of allergy development in children. This comes from the Norwegian Environment and Childhood Asthma Study, in which the Norwegian Institute of Public Health is involved. Similar results are reported in the USA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-triclosan-cosmetics-personal-products-allergy.html Immunology Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:26:21 EST news272096769 The dangers of smoking on smokers and their children are widely known but new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates that nicotine exposure also causes asthma in the smoker's grandchildren. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-asthma-offspring.html Health Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:10:04 EST news270798747 When children suffer from dust mite induced allergies and asthma, finding relief can seem impossible. While there isn't a complete cure for childhood respiratory allergies, researchers have found that long term control of allergic asthma can occur after only three years of allergy shots. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-child-allergy-years.html Immunology Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:57:12 EST news268279024 Research conducted at the University of Southern California (USC) indicates that at least 8 percent of the more than 300,000 cases of childhood asthma in Los Angeles County can be attributed to traffic-related pollution at homes within 75 meters (a little less than 250 feet) of a busy roadway. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-near-roadway-air-pollution-major-contributor.html Inflammatory disorders Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:57:45 EST news267677848 Children who use inhaled steroid drugs for asthma end up slightly shorter at their full adult height than children who don't use the drugs, new results from a comprehensive asthma study show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-children-steroids-asthma-slightly-shorter.html Immunology Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:16:02 EST news265882549 New research has uncovered several factors which could explain why children with asthma are at an increased risk of being bullied. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-explores-children-asthma-bullied.html Health Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:51:29 EST news265812682 Today the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) announced the launch of the Childhood Asthma Leadership Coalition, a multi-sector group of advocates and experts dedicated to raising awareness and advancing public policies to improve the health of children who suffer from asthma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-fresh-air-childhood-asthma-leadership.html Immunology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:02:18 EST news265464131 (HealthDay) -- Infant mortality, preterm births and teen births have dropped across the United States as have violent crime and victimization among children, U.S. health officials reported Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-annual-kids-health-bag.html Health Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:40:01 EST news261393207 (HealthDay) -- Studies investigating the effect of diet on the development of childhood asthma and allergies generally have substantial shortcomings with regard to how they handle confounding and effect modification, according to research published online June 19 in Allergy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-confounding-diet-asthma-allergy-poor.html Immunology Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:50:51 EST news260617844 House dust from homes with dogs appears to protect against infection with a common respiratory virus that is associated with the development of asthma in children. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, present their findings today at the 2012 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-dog-associated-house-respiratory-infection-linked.html Immunology Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:00:02 EST news259340253 Caesarean section delivery may double the risk of subsequent childhood obesity, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-caesarean-section-delivery-childhood-obesity.html Pediatrics Wed, 23 May 2012 18:30:01 EST news257011021 A further analysis of a previously published National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded study of children with mild persistent asthma reports the relative benefits of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment varies among children with differing demographic and clinical characteristics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-baseline-characteristics-children-mild-persistent.html Immunology Tue, 22 May 2012 10:30:07 EST news256899910 Where a child lives can greatly affect his or her risk for asthma. According to a new study by scientists at Columbia University, neighborhood differences in rates of childhood asthma may be explained by varying levels of air pollution from trucks and residential heating oil. Results appear online in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-air-pollution-trucks-low-quality-oil.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:37:12 EST news252074227 Investigators in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a mouse model in which a mother's urinary tract infection negatively affects the offspring, an occurrence anecdotally observed in humans. Using this first-of-its-kind model, they have identified proteins in the blood that may indicate whether such an infection might stunt fetal growth. Study findings have been published in the March 21, 2012, edition of PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-potential-biomarkers-linked-uti-related-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:41:09 EST news251631642 A consortium of federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations has published a report proposing a set of common measures and data-collection methods for use in asthma clinical research. Asthma Outcomes in Clinical Research: Report of the Asthma Outcomes Workshop, which appears as a supplement to the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, resulted from a meeting organized by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc., with additional support for the publication from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NIH contributors were the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-standardized-outcome-asthma-clinical.html Immunology Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:38:22 EST news249914282 A research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist Sylvia Brandt, with colleagues in California and Switzerland, have revised the cost burden sharply upward for childhood asthma and for the first time include the number of cases attributable to air pollution, in a study released this week in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-asthma-traffic-related-air-pollution-higher.html Health Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:40:01 EST news246774083 Providing health insurance to more children could lead to diagnosing additional cases of mild or intermittent asthma, a new study shows. Some who treat childhood asthma say this could increase the number of kids receiving medication to control their asthma symptoms and seeking care for asthma flares. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-lack-health-linked-asthma-children.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:13:49 EST news238922017 Researchers studying the first national quality measure for hospitalized children have found that no matter how strictly a health care institution followed the criteria, it had no actual impact on patient outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-key-quality-asthma.html Health Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:21:37 EST news236967674 A genetic variant may explain why some people with asthma do not respond well to inhaled corticosteroids, the most widely prescribed medicine for long-term asthma control. Researchers found that asthma patients who have two copies of a specific gene variant responded only one-third as well to steroid inhalers as those with two copies of the regular gene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-gene-variant-response-asthma-drugs.html Genetics Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:49:08 EST news236249301 Feeding a baby on only breast milk and for up to 6 months after birth can reduce their risk of developing asthma-related symptoms in early childhood, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breastfeeding-asthma.html Health Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:42:37 EST news230524937 Vitamin D, which is primarily absorbed from the sun, plays a role in protection against childhood asthma. Now, a new study led by Valencian researchers has shown that children who live in colder, wetter cities are at greater risk of suffering from this respiratory problem, since there are fewer hours of sunlight in such places. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sun-childhood-asthma.html Health Wed, 18 May 2011 11:58:42 EST news224938708