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BostInno |
A Harvard Startup's Games Teach Kids How to Care for Their Asthma and Allergies
BostInno Picking up on the need for amusing games focused on teaching children about their own health, local startup Wizdy has already launched its first app geared toward kids with asthma called Wizdy Pets. The venture, whose co-founders have ties to Boston … |
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Harvard Gazette |
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
Harvard Gazette A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human small airway in which lung inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and chronic … Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human COPD and asthma Small airway-on-a-chip improves study of human COPD and asthma Airway-on-a-chip may help advance COPD, asthma research |
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Small airway-on-a-chip improves study of human COPD and asthma
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences A research team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human … Modeling COPD and asthma in a human small airway-on-a-chip |
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Lung Disease News |
Harvard Scientists Find Asthma Cells Scrambling Like There's A Fire Drill
Lung Disease News In the course of a new study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, scientists have made an unexpected discovery suggesting intriguing new avenues both for basic biological research and for therapeutic interventions to fight asthma. Scrambling Asthma Cells |
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Harvard Gazette |
Asthma cells scramble like 'there's a fire drill'
Harvard Gazette In people with asthma, the cells that line the airways in the lungs are unusually shaped and “scramble around like there's a fire drill going on.” But according to a study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an unexpected discovery … |
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Harvard Health (blog) |
Environmentally friendly inhalers double the cost for people with asthma
Harvard Health (blog) Because more than 25 million people in the U.S. rely on inhalers for quick relief of asthma symptoms, Dr. Jena and his colleagues at the University of Southern California and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health wanted to gauge the … Inhaler ban boosts costs for people with asthma Environmental concerns led to jump in cost of asthma inhalers |
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cambridge/Boston, Mass – September 23, 2014 – The majority of drugs used to treat asthma today are the same ones that were used 50 years ago. New drugs are urgently needed to treat this chronic respiratory disease, which causes nearly 25 million … |
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HMS Study Finds Low Use of Asthma Insurance Coverage Among Young Adults
Harvard Crimson A recent study at Harvard Medical School found that young adults in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 utilized less health insurance coverage for their chronic asthma than adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 did. “As a pediatrician … |
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Harvard, SLU to develop asthma alert messaging system
News-Medical.net A $93,000 gift from Google together with a $25,000 award from Saint Louis University's President's Research Fund will allow faculty at SLU, Harvard and St. Louis College of Pharmacy to research smart phone and web-based applications and data … SLU To Help Develop Asthma App |
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Google gift allows SLU, Harvard to create real-time asthma alert system
St. Louis American A $93,000 gift from Google together with a $25,000 award from Saint Louis University's President's Research Fund will allow faculty at SLU, Harvard and St. Louis College of Pharmacy to research smart phone and web-based applications and data … SLU To Help Develop Asthma App |
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