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There may be a silver — and healthy — lining to the miserable cloud of allergy symptoms: Sneezing, coughing, tearing and itching just may help prevent cancer — particularly colon, skin, bladder, mouth, throat, uterus and cervix, lung and gastrointestinal tract cancer, according to a new Cornell study.
These cancers, interestingly, involve organs that "interface directly with the external environment," said Paul Sherman, Cornell Read more…

Contributing to the diversity of plant species (avoiding the massive use of an only or a few species); using examples of native flora preferably instead of exotic species and promoting the participation of experts in the design of landscaped areas are some of the recommendations town councils should consider when designing green spaces with a low-allergy impact. That is the opinion of Paloma Cari?±anos Gonz??lez, researcher of the Department Read more…

Spring and summer are not the only seasons that bring misery to those with allergies.
"The end of the pollinating season is good news for everyone with hay fever and similar summer allergies, but those who are sensitive to mold spores may have to wait until the first frost to find relief. Allergy to mold spores can be more of a problem than pollen allergy because mold grows anywhere Read more…

Asthma remains a significant health problem in Australia, with prevalence and death rates that are high by international standards despite declines, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The report, Asthma in Australia 2008, estimates that asthma affects more than 1 Read more…

Nanofiltered C1 inhibitor concentrate (C1INH-nf, CinryzeR) is an effective and safe treatment for all types of acute hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks, according to results released here at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Read more…

The British Lung Foundation is calling for everyone over 35 with Asthma or the progressive illness Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to be retested following evidence of confusion over diagnosis and treatment of the two respiratory diseases.
A survey of 776 GPs from all over the UK carried out for the charity by Doctors.net.uk shows that most have difficulty differentiating Read more…

A recent study published in the Archives of Disease
in Childhood finds that although most people consider rice to
be a "hypoallergenic" food with stomach-settling capabilities,
the cereal actually can cause a severe allergic reaction.
Researchers from Australia studied 31 infants, less than 12 months of
age, who Read more…

Results of a survey launched today revealed that GPs are not referring their severe seasonal allergic rhinitis patients to secondary care, forgoing patient choice and care. The findings demonstrate that GPs cannot see the benefit of referring or feel that they are able to manage their severe allergy patients in their Read more…

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New research casts doubt on government health recommendations that infants and new mothers avoid eating peanuts to prevent development of food allergy.
The study, published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, shows that children who avoided peanut in infancy and early childhood were 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy Read more…

Asthma that manifests in early adulthood has its origins in early
childhood, according to an article released on September 19, 2008 in The
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To investigate the origins of adult-onset asthma, Dr Debra Stern and
Professor Fernando D Martinez, Arizona Respiratory Center, Tucson,
Arizona, USA, and colleagues examined the Tucson Children’s Respiratory
Study, a Read more…

In conjunction with Home Indoor Air Quality Month, the North Dakota
Department of Health is cautioning residents about the dangers of mold in homes and other
buildings. Concerns about mold growth should be addressed quickly in order to prevent illness,
according to State Health Officer Terry Dwelle, M.D.
Governor John Hoeven has proclaimed October 2008 as Home Indoor Air Quality Month to
encourage North Dakotans Read more…

A new study shows that the innate immune system of humans is capable of killing a fungus linked to airway inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis and bronchial asthma. Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) have revealed that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a strong immune response against the environmental fungus Alternaria alternata. The groundbreaking findings, Read more…

Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in two complementary papers appearing in the September issue of Cancer Prevention Research.
In the first study to focus on African-Americans, researchers found unique results based on increased Read more…

Johns Hopkins Researchers at Neuroscience 2008 - People with restless leg syndrome often have found that sleep-inducing allergy drugs worsen their symptoms. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered a possible reason for that and help explain why RLS in general interferes Read more…

This holiday season, many Americans will host gatherings with family and friends. Millions will have guests with allergy or asthma concerns.
One in six Americans - about 50 million people - suffer from some form of allergies or asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). But Read more…

A new article in the December issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology provides strong evidence that allergies are much more than just an annoying immune malfunction. They may protect against certain types of cancer.
Buy cialis pills The article, by researchers Paul Sherman, Erica Holland and Janet Shellman Sherman from Cornell University, suggests that allergy symptoms Read more…

A leading dietitian based at Epsom General Hospital has been crowned ‘Dietitian of the Year’ by a national charity. Kristina Zaremba who has been working in the field for the past 28 years, said she was delighted with the accolade, awarded to her by Coeliac UK.
The charity supports people with coeliac disease - a condition that affects one in 100 people across the UK. Those with Read more…

HEPATOLOGY: A new regulator in the liver: miR15a controls the development of cysts
Polycystic liver and kidney diseases are a family of disorders that are characterized by a range of symptoms. For example, individuals with ADPKD have multiple cysts in both their liver and their kidneys, whereas individuals with ARPKD usually only have cysts in their kidneys (although cysts can develop in the liver later in life) and individuals Read more…

So advise researchers from several European countries following a huge international study. A major international study shows that the frequency of non-infectious rhinitis in children varies considerably
among regions of the world. The project, which monitored some 54,000 children from 22 countries, also shows that only a small proportion of such rhinitis cases are caused by allergy.
According to the Read more…

Cypress Pharmaceutical, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval of the company’s abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for the prescription and over-the-counter versions of Cetirizine Hydrochloride Oral Solution, 1 mg/1 mL.
Cypress’ Cetirizine HCl Oral Solution is the AA-rated generic equivalent to McNeil Consumer Healthcare’s Zyrtec® Oral Solution. Generic Read more…

Allergic reactions to latex happen commonly in medical settings, where rubber gloves are in abundant supply. But less-visible elements in other environments can also pose danger, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
"Consider that restaurant meals are frequently prepared by cooks wearing latex gloves. In schools, the cafeteria may be a threat, but there is also potential exposure to latex in Read more…

Johns Hopkins scientists report that high levels of a noxious gas from stoves can be added to the list of indoor pollutants that aggravate asthma symptoms of inner-city children, especially preschoolers.
Generic cipro pills no prescription Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), an irritating and toxic Read more…

The level of knowledge and understanding of children with food allergies varies significantly across three key groups: pediatricians and family physicians, the general public and families who have a child with food allergies. The article describing the new findings was published in the September issue of BioMed Central Pediatrics.
The research group, led by Ruchi Gupta, MD MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern Read more…

Circassia Ltd, a
specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on controlling immune system
responses, announced positive results from a phase II clinical study
of its anti-allergy technology, ToleroMune(R), in the field of cat allergy.
The trial showed that ToleroMune treatment can substantially reduce
allergic reactions to the allergen that causes most cat allergies, and
importantly was well Read more…