Posted 5:56 PM 8/2/2011
Aug. 2, 2011 -- Infants raised in a home with moldy areas may be more likely to develop childhood asthma.
A new study shows that infants who lived in moldy homes were nearly three times more likely to have childhood asthma by age 7.
"Early life exposure to mold seems to play a critical role in childhood asthma development," researcher Tina Reponen, PhD, professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati, says in a news (More)
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Posted 9:47 PM 8/1/2011
Aug. 1, 2011 -- Researchers seeking to explain the rising number of asthma cases in children have fingered a new suspect: electromagnetic fields (EMFs), energy that can't been seen or felt that is generated by household appliances, electronic devices, cars, and power lines.
In a study, they found that babies born to women who are exposed to stronger EMFs during (More)
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Posted 8:23 PM 8/1/2011
Aug. 1, 2011 -- Four newly identified genetic mutations may raise the risk of asthma in different ethnic groups, according to two new studies.
In the first study, researchers found that changes in the gene PYHIN1 increased the risk of asthma in people of African ancestry. In the second study, three more genetic mutations were linked to asthma in Japanese (More)
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Posted 11:00 PM 7/21/2011
July 21, 2011 -- Breastfeeding for at least six months appears to reduce the risk of a child developing asthma, new Dutch research suggests. Exclusive breastfeeding offered even more protection, the researchers found.
The link between breastfeeding and asthma (More)
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Posted 10:40 PM 7/13/2011
July 13, 2011 -- Caring may count as much as medicine when it comes to making a sick person feel better -- even when that person really needs the medicine, a new study suggests.
The placebo effect is a well-known phenomenon in which people get better when given a fake (placebo) treatment. It sometimes works even when people aren't fooled -- when they know they're getting a sugar pill instead of a drug.
Now a study suggests that placebos can be (More)
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Posted 11:03 PM 7/12/2011
July 12, 2011 -- If you are thinking about adopting a dog and someone in your household suffers from pet allergies, you may have been told that certain breeds, including the Portuguese water dog made famous when it was adopted by the Obamas, are less likely to cause symptoms.
But this may be just a myth, a study suggests.
In the study, owners of poodles (More)
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Posted 9:43 PM 7/12/2011
July 12, 2011 -- There may be an upside to contact skin allergies.
New research suggests that people who develop itchy rashes when their skin comes into contact with certain metals or chemicals have a lower risk for certain (More)
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Posted 7:31 PM 6/20/2011
June 20, 2011 -- The largest study ever to track childhood food allergies in the U.S. shows that they may be more common and more dangerous than previously recognized.
The study, a detailed survey of families with at least one child younger than 18, shows that 8% of kids under age 18 are allergic to at least one food. Surveys for about 38, 000 (More)
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Posted 3:46 PM 6/13/2011
June 13, 2011 -- Having a dog or cat at home during the first year of life may help prevent pet allergies later on.
Researchers say parents often worry whether having animals in the home will increase the risk of their children developing pet allergies. But a new study suggests that's not the case.
In contrast, researchers found that young adults who had a dog or (More)
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Posted 6:53 PM 6/6/2011
June 6, 2011 -- A medicine used to treat asthma may also be a fat-burning drug, new research suggests.
When taken in pill form, the drug known as formoterol boosted fat burning while preserving protein metabolism, thus maintaining muscle mass, says researcher (More)
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