Nerve cells in the gut play a crucial role in the body’s ability to create an immune response to infection, according to new research.According to scientists, the immune and nervous systems have co-evolved to respond to infectious threats. This means that scientists looking for ways to treat conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease or bronchial asthma...
A new study from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine has revealed a role for the ORMDL3 gene in asthma management. ORMDL3, a gene recently associated with susceptibility to asthma, is now referred to in relation to the body’s ability to harvest inflammatory cells during a respiratory allergic reaction in the airways.Researchers have identified...
The scheme, launched by the Department of Health in England in 2011, designed to help patients stick to their drug regimens, has been so successful that it will save the Department £ 517.6 million over the long term in the first five years, according to a team of economists. The study was conducted by experts at...
Scientists from Italy concluded that urban children with asthma living near parks or green spaces have fewer days with symptoms of the disease.The study examined children with persistent asthma living in the city. Over the course of two weeks, the number of days with illness was recorded, then this data was correlated with the distance from...
A new type of injectable biotechnological therapy for severe asthma from well-known drug manufacturers, according to the creators, is able to help a much wider range of patients than existing drugs.The results, collected in the middle of a clinical study involving five hundred and eighty-four patients, showed that the experimental drug reduced the annual rate...
About 40% of Americans live in areas where unhealthy levels of smog and ragweed pollen – linked to climate change – combine to threaten respiratory health and can lead to COPD and bronchial asthma, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a report.About one hundred twenty-seven million Americans live where ambrosia and ozone can threaten...
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