Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
(PhysOrg.com) -- What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth's climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Study finds omalizumab relieves seasonal asthma attacks in youth
A drug that targets the antibody immunoglobulin E (IgE), a key player in asthma, nearly eliminated seasonal increases in asthma attacks and decreased asthma symptoms among young people living in inner city environments, a ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Breathing easy: Biochemists offer first 3-D model of asthma-causing inflammation enzyme
Inflammation is a healthy response in reaction to potentially harmful presences in the body. But when it starts in the lungs and builds up to a full-fledged asthma attack, it can be downright deadly. Chronic inflammation ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Wave of the future: Portable ultrasound scanners in the ER can save lives by expediting diagnosis
All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor's touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that.
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks — and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Vitamin D may halt lung function decline in asthma and COPD
Vitamin D may slow the progressive decline in the ability to breathe that can occur in people with asthma as a result of human airway smooth muscle (HASM) proliferation, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 20, 2009 |
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EPA to cut air pollution from natural gas 'fracking'
(HealthDay) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday issued the first national standards to curb air pollution linked with the controversial practice of "fracking."
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Steroids to treat asthma: How safe are they?
Children experiencing an asthma attack who are treated with a short burst of oral steroids may have a transient depression of immune response according to a new study led by Université de Montréal. These findings, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 24, 2011 |
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Tobacco: Smoking gun for kids' asthma attacks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Exposure to smokers is still a major cause of asthma attacks in kids, according to results of a poll released today by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s ...
Jan 28, 2011 |
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New treatment for severe asthma
Ariel Noriega remembers her first debilitating asthma attack. She was in elementary school playing basketball. Since then, both asthma and sports have been central in her life. A new treatment now available at UC Davis Health ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Facebook peeks spark asthma attacks in dumped boy
Beware unhappy asthmatics: Italian doctors warn that Facebook could trigger an attack in some susceptible users.
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Children, males and blacks are at increased risk for food allergies
A new study estimates that 2.5 percent of the United States population, or about 7.6 million Americans, have food allergies. Food allergy rates were found to be higher for children, non-Hispanic blacks, and males, according ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Subtle Mutations in Immune Gene May Increase Risk for Asthma
A gene that encodes a protein responsible for determining whether certain immune cells live or die shows subtle differences in some people with asthma, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers reports in the June European ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Childhood Asthma Found to Negatively Affect Adult Health
(PhysOrg.com) -- Children with asthma are more likely to develop a range of health and social problems as they enter into adulthood, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 06, 2010 |
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Air-pollution expert explains how to take care of your lungs during ozone season
(PhysOrg.com) -- April's warm, sunny days mark the beginning of ozone season. UNC Health Care expert David Peden, MD, the director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology at the UNC School of Medicine, ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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