When children or adolescents with asthma and their parents become overly anxious about the disorder, it may impair their ability to manage the asthma effectively. A new, effective tool to assess asthma-related anxiety is described in an article in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert,…
Archive for May, 2011
New Tool to Assess Asthma-Related Anxiety Published in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Easy, Accurate Way to Predict Food Allergies Developed, Study Suggests
Friday, May 6th, 2011
An online calculator that predicts, within seconds, the presence of the three major food allergies in children has been developed by researchers at University College Cork. They have devised a new ‘Cork-Southampton calculator’ that gives 96% accuracy compared to current methods that are 61% -81% accurate. The research will be published…
Asthma Rates on the Rise in U.S.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The number of people with asthma has been rising in recent years, but CDC researchers say in a new report that they aren’t sure why.
The CDC says that the number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million between 2001 and 2009, when one in 12 Americans were told they had…
Allergies and Asthma linked to antibacterial products
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Antibacterial products containing Triclosan are found to put your health at risk and compromise the immune system’s ability to defend itself. People who are most exposed to Triclosan are more prone to increased allergies, asthma and overall weakened immune defenses, cites a new study from the School of Public Health at…
