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Study reveals nervous system's role in asthma attacks
Medical Xpress (Medical Xpress)—Asthma is a debilitating condition that kills 250,000 people around the world each year. People with asthma have hyperreactive airways and thickened lung walls obstructed with mucus. During an asthma attack, which could be fatal, … |
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Asthma drugs suppress growth
Medical Xpress Corticosteroid drugs that are given by inhalers to children with asthma may suppress their growth, evidence suggests. Two new systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library focus on the effects of inhaled corticosteroid drugs (ICS) on growth rates. |
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Team develops new approach to identify genes poised to respond in asthma …
Medical Xpress In a study published yesterday in the scientific journal Nature Immunology, a group at the La Jolla Institute (LJI) led by Pandurangan Vijayanand, Ph.D. identify new genes that likely contribute to asthma, a disease that currently affects over 200 … |
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A simple molecule inhibits asthma-related inflammation at an early stage
Medical Xpress A promising new candidate for an asthma drug has been found: a simple synthetic molecule based on a sugar effectively inhibits the bronchial inflammation that arises with respiratory disease – moreover, at an earlier stage than the current, widely … |
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Genetic evidence that body mass increases the risk of asthma in mid-childhood
Medical Xpress Some of the increase in asthma risk toward the end of the 20th century could be attributed to the increase in body mass index (BMI) in mid-childhood, according to new research published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The study, led by Raquel Granell … |
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New drugs to combat asthma and the like
Medical Xpress Statistics indicate that there are 300 million asthma sufferers worldwide, a further 600 million people living with chronic pneumonia and up to 30% of the global population contending with allergic rhinitis (allergic inflammation of the nasal airways … |
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Cellular force that drives allergy and asthma can be blocked by interferon
Medical Xpress Asthma and allergies are both driven by an inappropriate activation of the immune system, primarily a subtype of white blood cells known as T helper 2 cells, or Th2 cells. These cells are normally responsible for defense against parasites, but are also … |
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Wriggling treatment: Indians swallow live fish for asthma
Medical Xpress Asthma sufferers gather every June in the southern city of Hyderabad to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in hopes it will help them breathe more easily. The wriggling five-centimetre (two-inch) fish are slipped into the throats of … Indians swallow live fish in traditional treatment for asthma Annual free anti-asthma fish medicine distribution begins Distribution of Fish Prasadam Underway Amid Tight Security |
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Prenatal maternal stress predicts asthma and autism traits in 6 1/2 year-old …
Medical Xpress The team examined the degree to which the mothers' objective degree of hardship from the storm and their subjective degree of distress explained differences among the women's children in asthma-like symptoms and in autism-like traits. Results reported … Pregnant women's stress linked to symptoms of asthma, autism in offspring: Study |
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No harm in yoga: But not much help for asthma sufferers
Medical Xpress Researchers of the report, which is published in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), examined 14 previously published studies to determine … Yoga May Not Improve Asthma Symptoms Can e-cigarettes help you quit smoking? Researchers say that notion is unproven |
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