JAN
30
Using Immunotherapy For Allergies
From Central Florida News 13|
Christine Webb, Your Health And Fitness If you have allergic asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis or stinging insect allergies, you may be a good candidate for allergy shots, also known as immunotherapy. Allergens, like pollen, mold or animal dander, are substances that trigger allergy symptoms when an allergic person is exposed to them.
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JAN
28
Heavy dope smokers attract lung disease
From Fiji Times
HEAVY pot smokers will suffer serious lung disease two decades earlier than their cigarette-smoking counterparts, and the style of dope smoking is to blame. "What is outstanding about this study is the relatively young ages of the lung disease patients, as well as the lack of abnormality on chest X-rays and lung functions in nearly half of the patients we tested," Dr Naughton said.
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JAN
26
Allergy Shots Are Effective Treatment for Symptoms
From U.S. News
SATURDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- If you have allergic asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis or stinging insect allergies, you may be a good candidate for allergy shots, also known as immunotherapy. She said relief of allergy symptoms can last long after completion of treatment and that immunotherapy helps prevent the development of new allergies and may prevent the progression of allergic rhinitis to asthma.
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JAN
26
Smoking may lower allergy risk
From Health24.com
"One side effect of this may be that people who smoke may be less likely to develop allergies, but this is a very small benefit compared to the many harmful effects of smoking," said Hancox, of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Hancox and his colleagues accounted for a number of factors that sway the risk of allergies - such as participants' family income when they were growing up, and whether they were breastfed as infants - and found that the link between smoking and lower...
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JAN
24
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology Finding Cited as Key ...
From www.biospace.com/
(January 24, 2008) A finding by La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) researchers that could one day lead to new avenues for treating inflammatory bowel diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases has been cited by Nature Medicine as one of the key biomedical research advances of 2007.
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