http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Humans move between 'patches' in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds searching among bushes for berries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-people-forage-memories-birds-berries.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:15:38 EST news248440527 Hay fever (runny nose, sneezing, itchy eyes) is caused by an allergy to pollen, and most commonly to grass pollen. These tiny grains bring misery to sufferers through spring and summer and pollen levels are often included as part of weather reports to help sufferers prepare. However new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Clinical and Translational Allergy shows that, regardless of medication and other allergies, for the same grass pollen levels, hay fever symptoms are worse in the first half of the season than later on. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ready-hay-fever-worse.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:27:40 EST news243664037 A cellulose powder has been used increasingly for many years against allergic rhinitis. Still, there has been a shortage of scientific evidence for its efficacy in seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever), particularly in children. Now, however, scientists from the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg have proven that the cellulose powder reduces symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis in children, without any adverse effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-children-hay-fever-relieved-cellulose.html Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:17:57 EST news228475061 Probiotic drinks such as Yakult and Vivit can alleviate the symptoms of pollen allergies, says Wageningen UR PhD scholar Yvonne Vissers. They do this by diminishing the amounts of certain proteins that cause hay fever. The probiotic drinks also stimulate the manufacture of allergy-inhibiting substances. Particularly good results were obtained with Lactobacillus plantarum lactic acid bacteria. Vissers describes her findings in the thesis she defended on Friday 10 June. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-probiotic-allergies.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:13:59 EST news227427174 Chicago’s tree pollen count reached 1,500 today, triggering a dangerous air quality warning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-highest-pollen-season-years-friday.html Health Mon, 16 May 2011 10:34:39 EST news224760850 (AP) -- There may be a whiff of truth to claims by allergy sufferers who sniffle that this season is, well, a bigger headache than years past. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nose-allergy-season-vengeance.html Health Fri, 13 May 2011 16:31:26 EST news224523058 Budding trees and greening grass may bring a sigh of relief to some Chicagoans, but for 40 million other Americans the signs of spring leave them gasping for breath. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-chicago-reputation-worst-allergies-worse.html Health Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:21:15 EST news221901597