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Asthma Is the Most Common Chronic Disease Among Olympic Athletes
Science Daily (press release) In summer and winter sports there is widespread suffering from asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) among athletes who take part in endurance sports. Its relatively late onset in many older athletes suggests to the experts that the years of … 8 Percent of Olympians Have Asthma |
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Asthma is the most common chronic disease among Olympic athletes
Science Codex In summer and winter sports there is widespread suffering from asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) among athletes who take part in endurance sports. Its relatively late onset in many older athletes suggests to the experts that the years of … |
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Ayurvedic Remedy Gets Studied: Frankincense For Asthma?
Science 2.0 Science 2.0 fave Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson recently sent a funny thing across his Twitter feed:Q: What do you call Alternative Medicine that survives double-blind laboratory tests? A: Regular Medicine.And that's the crux of the issue, isn't it? Frankincense widely found in India may help cure asthma and arthritis Frankincense as a medicine |
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Rewiring DNA Circuitry Could Help Treat Asthma
Science Daily (press release) Reprogramming asthma-promoting immune cells in mice diminishes airway damage and inflammation, and could potentially lead to new treatments for people with asthma, researchers have found. The researchers were able to reprogram the … |
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Dog Bacteria Reduces Risk of Asthma in Humans, Says Science
Gizmodo New research suggests that exposure to certain microbes during infancy—particularly, to those from a particular strain of bacteria found in dogs—can alter the intestinal flora of a baby's developing GI tract such that asthmatic symptoms of a common … The Dog Bacteria That Protect You From Asthma Stanford School of Medicine |
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Children with asthma marginalized in movies, says Rutgers-Camden researcher
Science Codex A Rutgers–Camden professor says that children with asthma are the real-life superheroes, facing down breathlessness and operating life-saving devices whenever and wherever asthma attacks strike. Cindy Dell Clark, who teaches anthropology at … |
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Why hot, humid air triggers symptoms in patients with mild asthma
Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (June 6, 2012) — May is asthma awareness month, and with summer right around the corner, a study shows that doctors may be closer to understanding why patients with mild asthma have such difficulty breathing during hot, humid weather. |
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Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Severe Asthma in Teen Years
Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) — African-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study … |
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Smoking during pregnancy linked to severe asthma in teen years
Science Codex African-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study led by a research team at UCSF. |
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Discovery Expected to Shift Research Direction in Lupus and Asthma
Science Daily (press release) "Considering that diseases from asthma to lupus can occur because the system mistakenly ramps up the same types of T cell responses it normally uses against worms, our finding that B lymphocytes control the T cell/dendritic cell interactions that … |
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