http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Screening tests used to predict asthma activity in patients may have little tracking success when applied to people with persistent disease who are adhering to their health care regimens, UT Southwestern Medical Center physician report. http://www.physorg.com/news170956115.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:08 EST news170956115 It is widely believed that providing better access to medical care can improve the health of Americans. New research at National Jewish Health indicates, however, that having insurance and a medical provider is not enough to improve asthma control among elementary and middle school students. National Jewish Professor of Pediatrics Stanley Szefler, MD, and his colleagues report in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology that asthma control was poor among 155 students with asthma, regardless of whether they had medical insurance or an identified medical provider. http://www.physorg.com/news168528111.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:40:04 EST news168528111 (PhysOrg.com) -- Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some cases, death. http://www.physorg.com/news166455270.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:00:02 EST news166455270 (PhysOrg.com) -- Since the World Health Organization proclaimed smallpox officially eradicated in late 1979 - thanks to vaccination programs that produced a protective `herd immunity` for most of the globe - fear of the fever-causing, blistering, sometimes fatal infectious disease has faded. In fact, in the more than three decades that the disease has been wiped out, routine smallpox vaccination has virtually stopped for most of the population. http://www.physorg.com/news165590040.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:14:57 EST news165590040 A new study shows how neighborhood characteristics play a significant role in childhood asthma. http://www.physorg.com/news163425208.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:55:31 EST news163425208 Asthma patients who spend as little as 30 minutes with a health care professional to develop a personalized self-management plan show improved adherence to medications and better disease control, according to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. http://www.physorg.com/news160847902.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:05:07 EST news160847902 A new study indicates there may be yet another reason to reduce childhood obesity - it may help prevent allergies. The study published in the May issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology showed that obese children and adolescents are at increased risk of having some kind of allergy, especially to a food. The study was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), both parts of the National Institutes of Health. http://www.physorg.com/news160655970.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 11:40:16 EST news160655970 Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable in furthering the understanding of the causes of peanut and other food allergies and in finding new ways to treat and prevent their occurrence, according to experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that funded the research. Peanut allergy is of great public health interest because this food allergy is the one most often associated with life-threatening allergic reactions, resulting in up to 100 deaths in the United States each year. http://www.physorg.com/news151000966.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:42:46 EST news151000966