National Jewish receives major grant to study air pollution and asthma
National Jewish Medical and Research Center has received a three-year, $525,000 grant from the Thrasher Research Fund to study the long-term effects of poor air quality on children with asthma. Researchers will also determine if cleaning the air in the children's homes can improve their health.... ...The grant will allow National Jewish pediatric researchers Nathan Rabinovitch M.D., and Erwin Gel...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
.LOS ANGELES (Oct. 15, 1999) -- What if you learned you had a genetic.susceptibility to cancer or another potentially life-threatening disease? Would.you pursue a course of preventive treatment? What if your family members were at.risk? Should they also be tested? Could you possibly face discrimination from.employers or insurers?. .These are just a few of the questions to be explored at "Genetic....DENVER-Airway hyperresponsiveness, a feature commonly found in diseases such as.asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and environmental lung diseases,.may be linked to a lack of gamma/delta T cells in the lungs National Jewish.Medical and Research Center scientists write in today's Nature Medicine.. .The research sheds light on a previously unknown immune system mechanism that.depends o...National Jewish researchers first to identify component in thymus that positively selects T cells
.DENVER-Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center have.identified what T cells 'see' in a normal thymus that controls the development.of functional or immune-system aggressive T cells, according to today's issue of.the journal Immunity.. ."This is the first time anybody has described what T cells really 'see' when.they are positively selected in the thymus," said Uwe Staerz, M.D....DENVER-People with severe asthma who are "insensitive" to steroids need less of.the medication, fewer "bursts" of it in emergencies and spend less time in the.hospital when using intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in conjunction with.steroids, according to research published today in the Journal of Allergy and.Clinical Immunology.. .Researchers found that during the 6-month study, patients had f............DENVER-Using a nebulizer as a delivery system for glucocorticoid medication is...effective in treating asthma in children, but a National Jewish Medical and...Research Center physician recommends continued caution in using the medication...because of the drug's possible impact on a child's growth. ......For the past 10 years, physicians in the United States have anticipated a Food...a....DENVER- Children who don't take prescribed medication are more likely to be.found in families where affection isn't displayed, and where expectations and.consequences of behavior aren't expressed to the child, according to National.Jewish Medical and Research Center researchers.. "When you look at people who fail in the treatment of asthma you find a higher.number of families and kids with psyc...