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Researchers Funded to Study Links Between Depression and Asthma
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News Studies have shown that children with asthma are at higher risk for depression, and research also has shown an association between a parent or caregiver's depression and worsening symptoms in an asthmatic child. Bruce D. Miller, MD, and Beatrice L. |
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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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University of Copenhagen – The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
EurekAlert (press release) Babies born prematurely are more likely to develop asthma, but they grow out of it. This is the finding of a study conducted by a number of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and which has just been published in the medical journal PLOS ONE. |
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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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UB Studies Find Biological Links between Obesity, Asthma
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News Although obesity and Type 2 diabetes are associated with a more than 100 percent increase in the prevalence of asthma, the UB studies are “the first to find biological or immunological connections,” says Paresh Dandona, MD, PhD, SUNY Distinguished … |
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College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
courierjournal As the merciless Texas heat finally begins to subside and temperatures start to lower, many of those that suffer from asthma or otherrespiratory problems will begin their yearly ritual of carrying inhalers and scarfs with them to help their lungs … |
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Emory University Hospital First in Southeast to Offer Bronchial Thermoplasty …
Woodruff Health Sciences Center ATLANTA – Approximately 22 million Americans currently suffer from asthma, with 10-15 percent of that population – or over 3 million individuals – experiencing severe persistent asthma, which is difficult to control with even combined usage of … |
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Wood Honored for Research Linking Parental Problems and Child's Asthma, Depression
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News Empirical findings based on this model have led to discoveries of how parental depression and marital discord contribute to child depression and worsen asthma through psychobiological stress pathways. “Dr. Wood's careful, high-quality research is … |
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National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced
today the appointment of Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D., as Director, Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and NIH Associate Director for Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research. Dr. Kaplan is expected to join the NIH in early
2011.
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