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Transmitting Future Asthma by Smoking Today
HealthCanal.com Bethesda, Md.—Asthma is a serious public health problem. An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from this sometimes deadly lung disease, a number expected to increase to 400 million by 2025. One well-established risk factor for asthma is … |
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U of M research uncovers gene's contribution to asthma susceptibility
HealthCanal.com New research from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has uncovered the role gene ORMDL3 plays in the disease asthma. ORMDL3, a gene recently linked to asthma susceptibility, has now been linked to the body's ability to … |
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Asthma experts form new partnership to halve European asthma deaths
HealthCanal.com Asthma experts from across Europe are uniting as part of a new partnership launched this week to tackle Europe's high asthma prevalence and death rates. The European Asthma Research and Innovation partnership (EARIP) aims to reduce asthma deaths in … |
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Scientists discover protein that helps trigger allergic asthma
HealthCanal.com The findings, published in the journal Science, could help develop more targeted treatments in the future. Allergic asthma is often marked by the symptoms of difficulty breathing in, wheezing and coughing, and can be trigged by different factors in the … |
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Smoking + asthma + pregnant = a dangerous combination
HealthCanal.com New research from the University of Adelaide has shown for the first time that pregnant women who smoke as well as having asthma are greatly increasing the risk of complications for themselves and their unborn children. In the first study of its kind … World-first, Adelaide research finds asthmatic women who smoke while pregnant … |
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Fungal infections can trigger and exacerbate asthma
HealthCanal.com Boston, Mass. —A common fungal infection can trigger asthma and make it much worse by way of a route not targeted by existing asthma drugs, report researchers at Boston Children's Hospital. Their findings, published online by Nature Medicine on … |
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Mixing drugs and alcohol for better asthma inhalers
HealthCanal.com Asthma inhalers could soon become more effective thanks to a clever new way of manufacturing the particles they deliver, developed by a Monash chemical engineer. Current puffer designs and typical size range of particles mean a large portion of the … |
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Link between Respiratory Viruses and Asthma to be Explored
HealthCanal.com Asthma continues to be a major health concern worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 19 million adults and seven million children have asthma in the United States alone. Respiratory viral infections have been associated with … |
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Asthma study finds children being stigmatised in India
HealthCanal.com del.icio.us · Digg this story Digg · StumbleUpon · Twitter. By Richard North – Chidren with asthma in India are being prevented from receiving effective treatment by a range of widely-held myths and misconceptions, says a University of Sydney study. Asthma stigma in India prevents medical treatment – The Conversation |
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New research reveals swimming beneficial for young people with asthma
HealthCanal.com New research by medical students working in the Breathe Well Centre of Research Excellence at the UTAS School of Medicine has revealed swimming has health benefits for young people with asthma, with no adverse effects on asthma control or … Study backs pool therapy for asthmatics |
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