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Fungal pill could provide asthma relief for sufferers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found.





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Early exposure to indoor fungus molecules may protect infants against future allergies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 30, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maybe being a fussy housekeeper isn’t such a good thing after all. Environmental health scientists at the University of Cincinnati (UC) say they have confirmed what other scientists have only suspected: early-life exposure ...


Anti-fungal drug offers great benefits to some with severe asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some patients with severe asthma who also have allergic sensitivity to certain fungi enjoy great improvements in their quality of life and on other measures after taking an antifungal drug, according to new research from ...


Predicting fatal fungal infections

Predicting fatal fungal infections

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive indivi ...


Genetic code cracked of organisms behind fungal disease

Genetic code cracked of organisms behind fungal disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists have unlocked the code for the building blocks of fungal organisms which are responsible for mild as well as potentially deadly infections in people.


Spring into action against allergies

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It's spring allergy season, and many of you are ready to wave the white flag -- a wad of tissues, that is -- in surrender.


Preventing allergies

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vaccination can lower children's risk of allergy. Cathleen Muche-Borowski and her coauthors present a clinical practice guideline for allergy prevention in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch ...


Temporary infidelity may contribute to the stability of ancient relationships

Temporary infidelity may contribute to the stability of ancient relationships

Biology / Evolution

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Partner switching between fungus farming ants and their fungal clones during nest establishment may contribute to the stability of this long-term mutualistic relationship.


Do 3 meals a day keep fungi away?

Do 3 meals a day keep fungi away?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The fact that they eat a lot - and often - may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine ...


Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders

Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders (w/Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New diseases directly affect human survival and food security, especially as population density climbs. Leaf-cutting ants, one of a few groups of social insects to cultivate crops, have harvested plant material ...


New way to fight drug-resistant fungal infections discovered

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secret to fighting often lethal drug resistant fungal infections is to knock out the bug's molecular chaperone, according to U of T researchers.



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