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Laser scientists' new research could improve the treatment of asthma sufferers
Phys.Org UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers behave as they are projected through the air. Their findings could improve the effectiveness of inhalers for the over 5 million people in the UK suffering from … Laser trap tests asthma inhalers |
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Drug Discovery & Development |
Newly Developed Vaccines Could Reveal Asthma Clues
Drug Discovery & Development Their potential application to disorders such as asthma has a somewhat different focus. Macrophages that are able to sustain their activation state for prolonged periods might also contribute to chronic lung diseases such as asthma and COPD … Developing Lifesaving Vaccines in a New Way |
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WJXT Jacksonville |
Asthma study could help kids live symptom free
WJXT Jacksonville “Perhaps having more of this healthy type of fat that has an anti-inflammatory effect, could it actually help treat asthma and treat the inflammation with asthma,” explained Jason Lang, M.D., Pulmonary Pediatrician at Nemours's Children's Hospital in … Foods that Relieve Asthma |
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Lung disease IL-25 blockade could reduce virus-associated asthma attacks
Nature.com Approximately 85% of asthma exacerbations, also known as asthma attacks, are triggered by respiratory viruses and are characterized by an elevated type 2 immune response. Beale et al. now show that infection with rhinoviruses, the most common type of … |
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Daily Mail |
'Deaths could have been prevented' : Huge complacency around asthma as the …
Daily Mail While in relation to the fatal asthma attack, in six cases there were indicators that the child or the child's family may not have recognised early signs that asthma symptoms were slowly worsening, or may not have fully appreciated the severity of the … |
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Eating healthy could be key in controlling asthma according to new study
WNDU-TV A new study indicates that avoiding certain fatty foods and adding omega 3-fish oils to the diet may help decrease asthma symptoms in kids. Asthma is the number one reason kids miss school; almost 1 in 11 children in the U.S. struggle with it. "Perhaps … |
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Headlines & Global News |
Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments
Headlines & Global News "Every year asthma costs many tens of billions of dollars, significant productivity due to lost work and school days, and even lives," said senior author Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard … |
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Job woes getting you down? Your asthma risk could be rising as a result
Tech Times Doctors have added one more human malady to the list of diseases made worse by job-related stress, saying worries about losing a job can raise the risk of asthma. The researchers studied 7,000 working adults in Germany during the economic recession … |
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Harvard-made lung muscle could yield asthma insights
CNET As someone with asthma, I can tell you that it's not fun to feel as though a 200-pound man is sitting on your chest after you've just run a marathon. Up a flight of stairs. With a gag in your mouth. So when there's news about asthma research, my … Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma Muscle-on-a-chip Mimics Asthma, May Help Test Drugs |
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Could Using Air Fresheners During Pregnancy Boost Childhood Asthma Risk?
Scientific American Children of women who were exposed to higher levels of phthalate during pregnancy (in some cases a dozen times higher) were some 70 percent likelier to develop asthma by age 11 compared with the offspring of mom's with lower exposure. But with both … |
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