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...
Pain in pneumonia has different intensity and localization depending on the stage of the disease and the location of the inflammatory process. The causes of pain in the lungs with pneumonia are pathogenic processes in the tissues that have arisen due to the activity of bacteria-pathogens. In addition, with pneumonia, the so-called radiating pain may appear when...
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs, accompanied by the accumulation of exudate in the space of the alveoli and damage to interstitial tissues. Inflammatory changes in the organ lead to the appearance of specific signs. The general condition suffers, performance is impaired, but there is a likelihood of developing a condition such as pneumonia without symptoms....
Viral pneumonia is a disease in which the lower respiratory tract is affected. The causative agent of the pathology is viruses that provoke the development of adenovirus infection, influenza, respiratory ailments. Pathologies of this type have a similar clinical picture and an acute course. Pneumonia caused by a viral infection most often affects children and patients over 65 years of age. Epidemiological...
The respiratory system performs one of the most important functions in our body. It provides cells, organs and tissues with uninterrupted breathing and the removal of harmful carbon dioxide from them. Inflammatory lung disease greatly reduces respiratory function, and such a pathology as community-acquired pneumonia can lead to deep respiratory failure, oxygen starvation of the brain and...
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