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…
An increasing number of studies have shown a reduced risk of
allergies, hay fever, asthma and eczema in farmers’ children and
adolescents. Until recently it was believed that these protective
effects primarily arise from exposures during the first years of life.
Jeroen Douwes (Massey Read more…
Together with colleagues from the Department of Dermatology and Allergy and the Center for Allergy and Environment (ZAUM) of the Technische Universitat Munchen, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have pinpointed a major gene for allergic diseases. The gene was localized using cutting edge technologies for examining the whole human genome at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen.
Schematic representation of the high affinity receptor Read more…
Boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, but, when compared to girls, they are also more likely to grow out of it in adolescence and have a decreased incidence of asthma in the post-pubertal years. This indicates that there may be a buried mechanism in asthma development, according to a prospective study that analyzed Read more…
For the 2.2 million
school-age children who have food allergies and their parents, back to
school means educating classmates and parents before the school year even
begins.
In the school setting, avoiding food allergens can be difficult because
they’re everywhere — in the cafeteria, Read more…
Health Canada is warning Canadians with milk allergies not to use several brands of unauthorized acidophilus-containing health products labelled as "non-dairy" because they contain trace amounts of milk protein from dairy ingredients used in the production process.
The products are:
- Truly Premium All Naturals Acidophilus Read more…
As the summer approaches most of us rejoice, reach for the sunscreen and head outdoors. But an ever-growing number of people reach for tissue instead as pollen leaves eyes watering, noses running and spirits dwindling. Hay fever is just one of a host of hypersensitivity allergic diseases that cause suffering worldwide and others, such as severe reactions to bee stings or eating peanuts, can be more serious and even fatal.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute Read more…
As we come close to the Beijing Olympic Games, a review article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reminds us that the heat and humidity in the Beijing region will present a formidable challenge to all athletes. Moreover, poor quality of air can also affect all athletes, especially those with asthma.
"With exposure Read more…
If you think your ragweed allergies are getting worse, you may be right. And global warming may be the culprit, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
That’s not good news for the estimated 36 million Americans who suffer from ragweed allergy, the primary cause of fall allergy symptoms. Ragweed season unofficially begins Aug. 15.
Global climate change Read more…
Long-suffering victims of allergies such as asthma and hay fever might enjoy a surprise benefit, according to research led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
In a paper presented at an international symposium in Sydney, the researchers show that Read more…
Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children’s risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands.
"We were pretty surprised to see the adverse associations between daily versus rare nut product consumption during pregnancy Read more…
When the world’s top athletes convene next month for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, some will face a challenge that tests more than their athletic abilities. Heavy pollution in the Chinese capital could pose problems for competitors, especially those with asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
The ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide and other pollutants in Beijing’s hazy Read more…
Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research.
"Despite the clear benefit of a low-sodium diet on cardiovascular risk factors, there is no therapeutic benefit in the use of a low-sodium diet??¦on asthma control in our study population," wrote Zara E. K. Pogson, M.R.C.P., clinical research fellow at the University of Nottingham in England.
The results of the randomized, Read more…
Under the direction of the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, a German research group studied in a longitudinal study, over six years, whether associations are identifiable between the onset of atopic diseases and exposure to air pollutants originating from traffic. The scientists based their analysis, on the one hand, on the corresponding distance of the parental home to streets busy with traffic, and on the other Read more…
Inhibiting the proton currents in basophils, a rare type of white blood cell, can stop the release of histamine and could provide a new target for allergy and asthma drugs according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center in Baltimore. The research is published in the August 5th issue the Proceedings of the National Read more…
FDA on Thursday is expected to issue an advisory that urges physicians to conduct genetic testing before prescribing GlaxoSmithKline’s antiretroviral drug abacavir to reduce allergic reactions in people taking the drug, the New Read more…
Two complementary guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of allergic rhinitis are published in the August issue of the Allergy journal. These guidelines are the result of a close cooperation between scientists, primary care professionals, and patients’ organisations. GA??LEN, Global Allergy and Asthma European Network contributed to the guidelines representing European research in the field.
Allergic Read more…
Asthma UK Scotland is looking for 15-year-olds across Scotland with asthma to act as ambassadors for the charity and encourage other youngsters to lead a full and active Read more…