Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Eosinophilic airway inflammation in asthmatic patients is associated with an altered airway microbiome

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Until a few years ago, it was thought that microbes don’t live in the lung’s passages.  But now we know that there is a diverse range of mi...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A single intervention for cockroach control reduces cockroach exposure and asthma morbidity in children

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Cockroaches are small, scurrying insects that we just don’t like to think about.  But as small as they are, they have a large impact on ast...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Impact of school peanut-free policies on epinephrine administration

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Food allergies are seen in up to 1 in 12 school-age children in the United States today, and peanut is one of the most common allergens.  I...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Features of the bronchial bacterial microbiome associated with atopy, asthma and responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroid treatment

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It’s been known that asthmatic lungs are different from healthy lungs in many aspects, including housing different strains of bacteria.  So...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Early-life Farm Exposures and Adult Asthma and Atopy in the Agricultural Lung Health Study

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Allergies and asthma are growing public health problems, as rates have continued to increase over the past 50 years.  In that same time per...
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Monday, June 5, 2017

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events among patients receiving omalizumab: Results from EXCELS, a prospective cohort study in moderate to severe asthma

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Omalizumab is a potent medication approved to treat asthma, which has been shown to improve symptoms as well as decrease flares and use of ...
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The nasal methylome and childhood atopic asthma

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It has long been known that many diseases, like asthma, are the result of complex interactions between genes and the environment.  But how ...
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