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Breakthrough in understanding severe asthma has potential for new treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists from King's College London and Imperial College London believe they have discovered a key element in the development of chronic asthma. Their research has been published in a new paper in the journal Proceedings of ...


Folic acid may help treat allergies, asthma

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Folic acid, or vitamin B9, essential for red blood cell health and long known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects, may also suppress allergic reactions and lessen the severity of allergy and asthma symptoms, according ...


Research Finds New Cause of Ozone Wheezing and Potential Treatments

Chemistry /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) discovered a cause of airway irritation and wheezing after exposure to ozone, a common ...


Wheezing and asthma in young children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The diagnosis of asthma in a young child may well be more challenging to pediatricians than previously appreciated, according to a review of research and clinical experience literature by Howard Eigen, M.D., of the Indiana ...


Asthma costs Californians 3.9 million days of work or school a year

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

California's children missed 1.9 million days of school and the state's adult workers missed 2 million days of work due to asthma, according to new research from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.