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Allergy Headlines
Loss Of Biodiversity May Lead To Increase In Allergies And Asthma
Declining biodiversity may be contributing to the rise of asthma, allergies, and other chronic inflammatory diseases among people living in cities worldwide, a Finnish study suggests. Emerging evidence indicates that commensal microbes inhabiting the skin, airway, and gut protect against inflammatory disorders. However, little is known about the environmental determinants of the microbiome...
Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
In Infants, Gut Flora Affects Maturation Of B Cells
Infants whose gut is colonised by E. coli bacteria early in life have a higher number of memory B cells in their blood, reveals a study of infants carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden...
Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Ancient Remedy Slows Prostate Tumor Cell Proliferation
An over-the-counter natural remedy derived from honeybee hives arrests the growth of prostate cancer cells and tumors in mice, according to a new paper from researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine. Caffeic acid phenethyl ester, or CAPE, is a compound isolated from honeybee hive propolis, the resin used by bees to patch up holes in hives...
Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Seasonal Allergies May Be A Good Thing
Seasonal allergies could, in fact, be a sign that the body is doing what it is supposed to do; that your immune system is protecting you from environmental toxins, which damage your health much more than pollen or other allergens, researchers from Yale School of Medicine andthe Howard Hughes Medical Institute reported in Nature...
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: April 23, 2012
GENE THERAPY: Inadvertent changes: how engineered viruses disrupt normal gene expression Gene therapy holds the promise of treating genetic conditions by restoring normal gene function. The field has developed slowly over the last several decades with high importance placed on safety to reduce the chance that introduced genes cause problems...
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
No Link Between Depression, Nasal Obstruction
While mood disorders like depression or anxiety tend to negatively affect treatment for allergies and chronic rhinosinusitis, the same cannot be said for patients with nasal obstructions such as deviated septum, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. The new study shows mood disorders are not linked to either nasal obstructive symptoms or the failure of nasal obstruction surgery...
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Autism Linked To Immune System Problems, Further Evidence Found
According to a study in the April 2012 International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, the plasma of children with autism disorder (AD) had significantly lower levels of various cytokines, compared with that of unrelated healthy siblings from other families, who had family members with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)...
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Coronary Stents Safe For Those Allergic To Metals
In the April 16 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a study conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, reveals that coronary stents are not harmful to patients with coronary artery disease, who are allergic to nickle or other metal components. Coronary stents are small tubes inserted into narrowed or weakened arteries in order to help improve blood flow to the heart...
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Hookworms And Allergies - Doctor Infects Himself For Experiment
In the first experiment of its kind to test the suggestion that hookworm infection can reduce some allergic responses, a UK doctor who specializes in medical entomology, infected himself with the parasite and then swallowed a pill camera to film the effect on his intestines...
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Study Suggests Coronary Stents Not Harmful To Patients With History Of Metal Allergy
Study is first to compare clinical outcomes after placing stents in those with and without a history of skin allergy to stent metal components...
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
A Vaccination For Allergic Asthma That Works Using Intramuscular Injection
Allergic asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that affects 300 million people throughout the world. The number of people suffering from asthma has doubled over the last ten years and almost 250, 000 people die prematurely from this problem each year. In most cases, asthma is caused by an abnormal reaction to substances in the environment known as allergens...
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Food Ingredients That Cause Milk Allergy May Be Missed By Standard Test
The standard test used to detect milk-protein residues in processed foods may not work as well as previously believed in all applications, sometimes missing ingredients that can cause milk allergy, the most common childhood food allergy, which affects millions of children under age 3, a scientist reported at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Socie...
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
New Regulator Identified In Allergic Diseases
Researchers have taken a critical step in understanding how allergic reactions occur after identifying a genetic signature for regulation of a key immune hormone, interleukin (IL-13). Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease...
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Gut Bacteria Control Allergic Diseases
When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine - ten times more cells than comprise the body itself...
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Childhood Exposure To Germs May Help Immunity
A new study of mice supports the idea that exposure to germs in childhood helps develop the immune system and thereby prevent allergies and other immune-related diseases such as asthma and colitis later on in life. Researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, US, led the study, a report of which is in the 22 March online issue of Science...
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Early Exposure To Germs Is A Good Thing
Previous human studies have suggested that early life exposure to microbes (i.e., germs) is an important determinant of adulthood sensitivity to allergic and autoimmune diseases such as hay fever, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease. This concept of exposing people to germs at an early age (i.e., childhood) to build immunity is known as the hygiene hypothesis...
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Tree Pollen Count High In Chicago As Spring Starts
Today's tree pollen count in Chicago is 1600, which is 100 more than the 1500 limit, which indicates a dangerous air quality warning. Dr. Joseph Leija, who performs the official allergy count for the Midwest states: "After only seven days of allergy count recording, we are documenting the first air quality alert in the 2012 allergy reporting season...
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Improved Peanut Allergy Diagnosis
Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne have identified a new way to accurately test for peanut allergy. It is hoped the test will be more cost effective and convenient than standard approaches and minimise over-diagnosis of peanut allergy in the community...
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Diagnosing Sensitivity, Allergy Or Intolerance To Food Via Blood Tests
Blood testing to determine a link between food and illness is increasingly common, but some tests are not considered diagnostic and can lead to confusion, according to a primer in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Both traditional physicians and holistic medicine practitioners may offer blood testing to diagnose adverse reactions to food...
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Antibiotics Disturb Normal Gut Bacteria, Increase Severity Of Allergic Asthma
Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to a University of British Columbia study. The study, published in the journal EMBO reports, shows that certain antibiotics that affect intestinal bacteria also had a profound impact on allergic asthma...
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Respiratory Diseases Expected To Worsen With Global Climate Change
Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban areas, the spread of desertification, and expansions of the ranges of communicable diseases as the planet heats up, the professional organization represen...
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Is It A Peanut Or A Tree Nut? Half Of Those With Allergies Aren't Sure
Adults and children in a recent study could correctly identify, on average, fewer than half of an assortment of the peanuts and tree nuts that are among the most common food allergens in the United States. Parents of children with peanut and tree-nut allergies did no better at identifying the samples in the survey than did parents of children without this food allergy...
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Potential For Improved Diagnosis, Treatment Of Painful Food Allergy Following Discovery Of Genetic Marker
Researchers have identified a genetic signature for a severe, often painful food allergy - eosinophilic esophagitis - that could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment for children unable to eat a wide variety of foods...
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Creating A Vegetarian Cutlet
It looks like a cutlet, it's juicy and fibrous like a cutlet, and it even chews with the consistency of a real cutlet - but the ingredients are 100 percent vegetable. Researchers are using a new method to prepare a meat substitute that not only tastes good, but is also environmentally sustainable...
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Investigational Allergy Immunotherapy Tablet Phase III Results Announced
Merck presented the results from a Phase III clinical study of its investigational allergy immunotherapy tablet (AIT) for ragweed pollen at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting in Orlando, which demonstrated that in comparison to placebo, AIT substantially lowered the overall combined score that is used to measure nasal and eye symptoms an...
Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
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