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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News 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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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Child Health News According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States in 2007 around 3 million children under 18 had food allergies - a rise of 18% since 1997. |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Child Health News A Professor at Harvard Medical School suggests many people today are over-reacting to the threat of peanut allergies in children. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Allergic rhinitis does not appear to be associated with snoring or daytime sleepiness, but individuals with obstructed nasal passages are likely to experience both regardless of whether they have allergies, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of... |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Child Health News During her doctoral work, Lise Holden developed a way of identifying lupin protein in food products. She also investigated the incidence of lupin allergy among children with food allergy and studied the proteins in lupin responsible for allergy production. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Allergan, Inc. |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A team of scientists from across Europe are embarking on new research to develop a treatment for food allergy. |
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Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an expedited approval of a supplemental application that allows for changes in the manufacturing of Sucraid (sacrosidase) Oral Solution. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers are presenting more than 450 abstracts on investigational findings in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases at the ACAAI Annual Meeting in Seattle, Nov. 6-11. Following are highlights of some key studies on asthma. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers are presenting more than 450 abstracts on investigational findings in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases at the ACAAI Annual Meeting in Seattle, Nov. 6-11. Following are highlights of some key studies in allergy-immunology. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Experts in the U.S. say food allergies are on the rise and although strict avoidance is presently the only treatment, new effective therapies are presently being developed. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Devices/Technology In less than 3 months, life-saving albuterol inhalers used by almost 40 million patients with respiratory disorders will no longer be sold. |
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Drug Trials Data presented today at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI) show that Xolair (Omalizumab) for Subcutaneous Use significantly decreased asthma attacks in children aged six through 11 with moderate or severe persistent allergic asthma inadequately controlled with... |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Although sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is used in Europe and other countries, experts at the yearly meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Seattle say questions stay unanswered regarding its effectiveness, appropriate use, dosage, and... |
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Although the variety of substances that can cause contact dermatitis is almost infinite, it frequently can be effectively managed with the proper diagnosis and treatment according to investigators presenting the newest research at the yearly meeting of the American College of... |
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
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Women's Health News According to Australian researchers, the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil can cause an allergic reaction in some girls. |
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Child Health News With close monitoring and a few standard precautions, almost all children with known or suspected vaccine allergies can be securely immunized, according to a team of vaccine safety experts led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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Medical Research News 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. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials A new study here shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person's allergic reaction to some routine allergens. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Children who are given antibiotics in their first 3 months frequently wheeze at 15 months of age. However, this wheezing is possibly more owing to the presence of chest infections than to the use of antibiotics. |
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials College students with food allergies aren't avoiding the foods they know they shouldn't eat. |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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Medical Patent News The United States Patent & Trademark Office issued a patent for an environmentally "Green" low cost process that eliminates the effects of a broad range of pollutants using oxidants. |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials Patients who have had acute allergic-like reactions to nonionic iodinated contrast material infrequently develop any serious long-term problems and can be treated securely with generally used medications according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University... |
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials New knowledge points to the fact that a genetically induced lack of filaggrin, a key protein of the skin barrier, plays a decisive role in the origin of allergies. |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Medical Condition News There is a link between alcohol consumption and increased risk of perennial allergic rhinitis, according to a recent Danish study of 5,870 young adult women. |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
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Medical Research News Long-suffering victims of allergies like asthma and hay fever might like a surprise benefit, according to research led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
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Medical Condition News 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. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Luna Innovations Incorporated has announced the award of a $1.6 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the use of fullerene-based nanomedicines as a path to treat allergies and other inflammatory diseases. |
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
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Child Health News Babies exposed to cigarette smoke before birth or during the first months afterwards run a greater risk of developing asthma and allergy. This according to a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. |
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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Child Health News Allergic diseases appear more frequently in children who grow up near busy roads. This is the result of a study of several thousand children, now published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. |
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