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SOM 2016 capstones target childhood asthma, food insecurity, diabetes among homeless
News from the University of Massachusetts Malek Mazzawi helped families of children with asthma reduce their absences from school by improving their home environments, making them less prone to asthma attacks. Micaela Atkins worked to help the homeless manage their diabetes. Kathryn Bailey … |
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Telegraph.co.uk |
End of inhalers? cure for asthma and food allergies on horizon
Telegraph.co.uk A universal cure for asthma and food allergies is on the horizon after scientists found a way to convince the immune system to ignore triggers like pollen or peanuts. The new approach involves taking a small amount of the problem food or allergen and … Nanoparticle acts like Trojan horse to halt asthma |
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Doncaster Today |
Fast food lovers exposed to chemical linked with autism and asthma
Doncaster Today The chemicals are known to disrupt hormones and have been implicated in several illnesses and conditions including asthma to autism. The new study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is one of the first to look at fast-food … |
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?Autumn and winter-born babies more likely to get asthma, hayfever and food allergies
Western Daily Press Autumn and winter-born babies are more likely to develop asthma, hayfever and food allergies due to genetic differences, according to new research. Scientists have discovered the season you are born in could determine whether you develop an allergy in … |
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A link between food and asthma?
Daily News Egypt The breathing condition asthma affects millions of people, causing difficulty breathing, a tightness in the chest and coughing. In more serious cases, sufferers may have “asthma attacks” – which involve a feeling of being suffocated, a condition only … |
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Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
Food Safety News For the estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people in the United States who are allergic to sesame, the recently introduced Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2015 comes as good news. Included in the act's provisions, which primarily seek to give consumers … |
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FoodWiki: a Mobile App Examines Side Effects of Food Additives Via Semantic Web.
J Med Syst. 2016 Feb;40(2):41
Authors: Çelik Ertu?rul D
Abstract
In this article, a research project on mobile safe food consumption system (FoodWiki) is discussed that performs its own inferencing rules in its own knowledge base. Currently, the developed rules examines the side effects that are causing some health risks: heart disease, diabetes, allergy, and asthma as initial. There are thousands compounds added to the processed food by food producers with numerous effects on the food: to add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify, and so forth. Those commonly used ingredients or compounds in manufactured foods may have many side effects that cause several health risks such as heart disease, hypertension, cholesterol, asthma, diabetes, allergies, alzheimer etc. according to World Health Organization. Safety in food consumption, especially by patients in these risk groups, has become crucial, given that such health problems are ranked in the top ten health risks around the world. It is needed personal e-health knowledge base systems to help patients take control of their safe food consumption. The systems with advanced semantic knowledge base can provide recommendations of appropriate foods before consumption by individuals. The proposed FoodWiki system is using a concept based search mechanism that performs on thousands food compounds to provide more relevant information.
PMID: 26590979 [PubMed – in process]
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Food World News |
Children Exposed To Domestic Animals Have Lesser Risk Of Having Asthma, Study Says
Food World News "Our results confirmed the farming effect and we also saw that children who grew up with dogs had about 15 percent less asthma than children without dogs," said by the lead author who is also an assistant professor of epidemiology at Uppsala University … Dogs can help prevent asthma in kids Dogs can help reduce the risk of asthma Pet exposure during infancy associated with 13% lower risk of asthma in school … |
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New Study: Asthma Pills Rejuvenate Ageing Brain
Food World News Scientists have found out that montelukast, which is used to keep asthma attacks in children and adults is capable to reverse the brain's ageing process in rats. This could lead to decreasing the rate of deterioration of the human brain or even … |
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Can Food Allergies Put You at a Higher Risk of Developing Asthma?
Allergic Living Q: My 6-year-old son has food allergies and now also seems to be coughing a lot during the night (long after he's eaten). Could he be developing asthma? How can we know and what are the next steps? Dr. Bassett: You are right to be concerned. A history … |
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