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Researchers identify hCRTh2 protein as possible therapeutic target for asthma
News-Medical.net Patients with asthma have chronic lung inflammation that results in sporadic narrowing of the airways and difficulty breathing. Symptoms and severity are variable among individuals; however, the cells and inflammatory factors that trigger asthmatic … |
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Researchers identify biological pathway that explains why current asthma therapies fail in many cases
News-Medical.net Asthma is an enormous public health problem that continues to grow larger, in part because scientists don't fully understand how it is caused. Existing therapies don't cure the disease and often don't even significantly alleviate the symptoms. Now … |
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Emergency department staff may help identify, recruit at-risk patients for …
Healio Black patients with asthma may be more likely to participate in online asthma prevention activities if they are approached in the emergency department during an acute asthma event than by telephone are mail, according to results from a recent pilot study. |
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Allergic asthma: UFZ researchers identify a key molecule
EurekAlert (press release) Worldwide, there are more than 300 million asthma patients. In Germany alone, 10 – 15 percent of children suffer from allergic asthma that is often impaired by environ-mental pollutants. With the medications available today, symptoms can be effectively … |
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Allergic asthma: Researchers identify a key molecule
Medical Xpress In addition to hay fever, allergic asthma is currently considered to be one of the most widespread allergies. UFZ researchers and their colleagues from the University of Leipzig have recently been successful in finding a protein that plays a critical … |
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Researchers identify link between asthma, Parkinson's disease
Healio Researchers also reported a dose-dependent relationship between greater asthma severity and higher risk for Parkinson's disease. Chih-Ming Cheng, MD, of the department of psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues … |
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Th2 biomarkers help identify inflammation in patients with asthma
Healio The analysis included 622 adults aged 18 to 65 years with partly or poorly controlled moderate to severe asthma. Researchers separated participants into two groups. The first group included participants (n = 237) with high airway reversibility … |
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New Lab-on-a-Chip to identify Asthma as well as Tuberculosis
The Wiire (blog) The researchers have developed a low cost chip on device that can analyze sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma. This is an accurate diagnosis that would help a lot of people in the long run. The sample cells are … Lab on a Chip Acoustofluidic Sputum Liquefaction Device for Safe Asthma and … New Lab-on-a-Chip to Better Diagnose Asthma, Tuberculosis On-Chip Processor the First Step in Point-of-Care Tuberculosis and Asthma … |
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Researchers Use Reduced Airflow, Elevated Exhaled Nitric Oxide to Identify …
Lung Disease News In this study, the research team showed that individuals with severe uncontrolled asthma should be re-examined frequently to decrease exacerbations and to identify patients with constant airflow limitation. Asthma is a chronic lung disease … |
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Scientists identify rhinovirus C receptor associated with severe asthma attacks
News-Medical.net Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified a cellular receptor for rhinovirus C, a cold-causing virus that is strongly associated with severe asthma … |
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