NIH gives PITT $13 million grant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease research
...sema Research Center in the division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine. The grant has import... associate professor of medicine in the pulmonary, allergy and critical care division of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a SCCOR co-investi...Carbon monoxide protects lung cells against oxygen-induced damage
...dicine and the chief of the division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "It saves their life in the short term, but long-term exposure appears to cause significant damage to many cell types including the epithelial and endothelial cells of the...Newborns with respiratory distress potentially have rare genetic disease
...r to other more common conditions, such as asthma, allergy or cystic fibrosis," Ferkol says. "Physicians often fail to consider PCD, in part because we don't have a great diagnostic test for the disease." Ferkol indicates that several clinical features of PCD mirror those found in the more-common cystic fi...Non-GMO solution to seafood allergies
Seafood allergy sufferers may soon be able to eat prawns without the fear of an adverse reaction. Chinese scientists have taken a promising step towards removing from prawns the proteins that cause an allergic response without resorting to genetic manipulation, repo...Diesel exposure model reduces allergy risk assessment errors
...pes of traffic on childhood respiratory health and allergy development. All infants in the study had at least one parent with known allergies. Researchers found that infants who were exposed to the highest levels of elemental carbona marker of diesel exposurewere more than twice as likely to wheeze compar...JCI table of contents -- April 19, 2007
...r immune suppression by glucocorticoids in contact allergy AUTHOR CONTACT: Gnther Schtz German Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Germany. Phone: +49-6221-423411; Fax: +49-6221-423470; E-mail: g.schuetz@dkfz.de . Jan P. Tuckermann Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany. Phone: +49-3641-656134...A new study links a stomach microbe to asthma prevention
... medical history of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and allergy symptoms. Nearly 8,000 of the participants were te...er part of the study, they analyzed the results of allergy skin testing to six allergens, including ragweed, rye grass, and Russian thistle, among a subgroup o...Early exposure to indoor fungus molecules may protect infants against future allergies
...levels of these molecules may also protect against allergy development in high-risk infants. The immune sys...l particulates on childhood respiratory health and allergy development. UC researchers collected dust samples from each infants primary activity room and an...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 2, 2007
...arch in Toxicology Skin patch screening test for allergy to fragrances second only to nickel as the most c...in the Western world may not detect some cases of allergy to a widely used fragrance chemical, Swedish scientists are reporting. In a study scheduled for pu...NIH awards VBI, Mayo Clinic $2.4M to study chronic rhinosinusitis
...involve a transdisciplinary team of immunologists, allergy physicians, otorhinolaryngology surgeons, and genomic scientists. Principal Investigator Hirohito Kita, professor of medicine at the Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools, will lead the project at Mayo Clinic, while Lawrence will head the work at VBI in ...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...ter would let loose the pollen that bedevil modern allergy sufferers," Mitman says. To compound the problem...ria, to be eliminated by drugs from our bodies. An allergy is instead the result of complex interactions that our bodies have with physical, chemical, biologic...Peanut allergies overstated, study finds
... found elsewhere to be predictive of having peanut allergy - were found not to be allergic to peanuts when th...spital environment. "Diagnostic tests for peanut allergy have poor sensitivity and specificity," the paper concludes. "Previously described diagnostic cut-of...Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
...nslational Genomics Center, division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, these findings offer strong evidence that rapid progressors represent a distinct clinical phenotype compared with the usual slower progressing patients. "We are only now start...A vital molecule for resistance to food allergy has been identified and offers a potential target ...therapy. There is currently no way to treat food allergy and the only way for sufferers to manage the problem is to avoid certain foods and make sure they ha...N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
...cience could provide relief to millions of peanut allergy sufferers, and be an enormous boon to the entire p...e hospitalizations. In industrialized nations, the allergy has been rapidly increasing in children, for causes that are not entirely understood. One study show...