As more than 2.2 million children with food allergies head back to school in coming weeks, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) encourages parents, in cooperation with school staff, to take measures to ensure safety.
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Archive for August, 2008
Reducing The Sting Of Summer Bug Bites
12 Aug 2008
The arrival of summer brings with it an alarming increase of honey bees, wasps, yellow jackets and hornets, especially dreadful for those who experience severe allergic reactions Read the rest of this entry »
Students With Food Allergies Often Not Prepared
11 Aug 2008
College students with food allergies aren’t avoiding the foods they know they shouldn’t eat. Students of all ages are not treated with potentially life-saving epinephrine as often as they should be. And instructors, roommates and friends often are not aware of what to do if a food-allergic student has a reaction.
These are some of the findings of recent studies at the University of Michigan Health System. The research suggests that many college Read the rest of this entry »
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For the first time, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified genetic components of dendritic cells that are key to asthma and allergy-related immune response malfunction. Targeting these elements could result in more effective drugs to treat allergic disorders Read the rest of this entry »
If you think your ragweed allergies are getting worse, you may be right. And global warming may be the culprit, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
That’s not good news for the estimated 36 million Americans who suffer from ragweed allergy, the primary cause of fall allergy symptoms. Ragweed season unofficially begins Aug. 15.
Global climate change is Read the rest of this entry »
Leadership from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology released the following statement in response to the Thursday announcement of a Food and Drug Administration investigation into Singulair:
There are no data from well-designed studies to indicate a link between Singulair and suicide. The concern Read the rest of this entry »
What Is Life Like For Teens With Allergies?
09 Aug 2008
A study into teenagers with food allergies will investigate what life is like for them in an attempt to improve their quality of life and curb the number of allergy-related deaths.
Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have created a quality of life questionnaire which asks teenagers what it is like for them to live with a food allergy. Read the rest of this entry »
Allergy Week 19 To 23 May 2008, UK
09 Aug 2008
Buy generic cipro Over the past 40 years there has been a dramatic rise in the number of people suffering from asthma, eczema, hayfever and food allergies and this ‘allergy epidemic’ has particularly affected children.
Allergy Week UK takes place from Monday 19 May to Friday 23 May and highlights this chronic debilitating condition affecting many children and adults.
The Paediatric Read the rest of this entry »
FDA Clears Glove Made From New Type Of Latex
09 Aug 2008
The U.S. Buy diflucan pills Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing the first device made from a new form of natural rubber latex, guayule latex. The product, the Yulex Patient Examination Glove, is derived from the guayule bush, a desert plant native to the Southwestern United Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers in the US have found that childhood asthma is significantly less likely in children infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a
bacterium that has inhabited the stomach and small intestine of humans for thousands of years. They found that children between the ages of 3 and
13 were nearly 59 per cent less likely to have asthma if they carried Read the rest of this entry »
Children who are given antibiotics in their first three months often wheeze at 15 months of age. However, this wheezing is probably more due to the presence of chest infections than to the use of antibiotics.
These were the key findings of research carried out Read the rest of this entry »
Some form of immunotherapy is expected to be available for peanut allergy within the next five years. But the reasons for the increasing prevalence of this allergic reaction remain unclear. The issues are discussed by Professor Wesley Burks, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA, in a Seminar in this week’s edition of The Lancet.
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Roleys’s teff and corn based gluten-free bread mix carried off the winner’s trophy this month at first ever Free-from Food Awards, organised by Foods Matter, the UK’s only magazine for food allergy, intolerance and sensitivity sufferers.
A packed gathering heard Foods Matter Editor, Michelle Berridale-Johnson, explain why Foods Matter had decided to launch the awards Read the rest of this entry »
Avoid Allergens To Reap The Rewards Of Gardening
06 Aug 2008
The beauty of budding plants and bouquet of aromas are sources of satisfaction for many gardeners. For allergy sufferers, though, gardening can be as much a chore as pursuit of passion.
Pollen from trees, shrub and grasses can cause an onslaught of allergy symptoms, including sneezing, itchy eyes, congestion and in some cases, an asthma Read the rest of this entry »
FAAN Unveils Five Steps Forward For Food Allergy
06 Aug 2008
In honor of the 11th
annual Food Allergy Awareness Week, May 11-17, The Food Allergy &
Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) unveiled its new advocacy initiative "Five Steps
Forward for Food Allergy" at an educational briefing on Capitol Read the rest of this entry »
invivodata inc., the industry leader in electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) solutions and services for global clinical research, today announced that its DiaryPRO® field-based ePRO system was used to capture primary efficacy endpoint data in the recently unblinded Phase III study of Pollinex® Quattro, a vaccine being developed by Allergy Therapeutics® plc (AIM:AGY) to treat the symptoms Read the rest of this entry »
May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, and Carpenter Co., a leader in sleep technologies and the world’s largest producer of comfort cushion products, offers relief for the more than 60 million Americans who suffer from these ailments. The company’s innovative SlumberFresh™ pillow is filled with RELY™ fiber, which protects the pillow and mattress pad against Read the rest of this entry »
Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children’s risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands.
"We were pretty surprised to see the adverse associations between daily Read the rest of this entry »
High living standards and the life style connected to them seem to promote the development of autoimmune diseases and allergic symptoms. This has lead to the assumption that the immune system begins to overreact to the organism’s own structures or to exogenous non-infectious Read the rest of this entry »
Morria Biopharmaceuticals Plc, a
biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel
anti-inflammatory drugs, announced that it has obtained regulatory
approval from the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC) to initiate
a Phase II study of MRX-4 in 105 patients suffering from Read the rest of this entry »
Recent scientific findings explain why patients with a rare immunodeficiency disorder are unusually susceptible to certain common infections. By revealing the exact molecular mechanisms involved, they also give us clues as to why some ‘healthy’ people are more prone to these infections than others, and suggest potential treatments.
People with Hyper IgE Syndrome, or ‘Job’s Syndrome’, suffer from devastating Read the rest of this entry »
FDA on Thursday is expected to issue an advisory that urges physicians to conduct genetic testing before prescribing GlaxoSmithKline’s antiretroviral drug abacavir to reduce allergic reactions in people taking the drug, the New York Times reports. The recommendation to conduct genetic screenings will be included Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to allergies, both the problem and the solution are found within us. Our immune systems respond to foreign substances with an arsenal of cells. Some are programmed to "remember" invaders they’ve encountered in the past. Normally, anything previously identified as harmless Read the rest of this entry »
Cytos Biotechnology Ltd (SWX:CYTN) announced
results from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled,
multicentre phase II studies
with CYT003-QbG10 monotherapy for the treatment of house dust mite and cat
allergy, and with
CYT005-AllQbG10 combination therapy for the treatment of house dust mite
allergy. The studies were
conducted in order to determine whether QbG10 acts through an
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