You may have seen some stories in the media today about a study into the risks of elderly people taking combinations of common medicines, some of which are used to treat asthma and allergies. Cher Piddock, Lead Asthma Nurse at Asthma UK, says: ‘This interesting study highlights the possible risks of combining several common medicines including some used to treat asthma and allergies.

Phadia, the global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, today announced the FDA clearance of recombinant ImmunoCAP® Allergen Components for marketing in the United States. The FDA clearance applies to all of Phadia’s instrument platforms.

Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to several foods, the authors added.

A large, national study of food allergies in the U.S. finds that more children have allergies, including severe allergies, than previously thought. The study, “The Prevalence, Severity and Distribution of Childhood Food Allergy in the United States,” published in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online June 20), found 8 percent of children under age 18 had a food allergy, or roughly 5.

A national study of food allergies in the US, the largest of its kind, finds that more children have food allergies than previously reported.

One child per each dozen in the United States has a food allergy according to a new study released this week. The authors of this study hope to build awareness of this prevalent condition and in turn overall improve the quality of life for children and caretakers. Dr.

Local hay fever sufferers will breathe more easily following the news that Northern Ireland’s only air pollen sampler has been installed at Queen’s University Belfast in association with the Met Office. The new pollen trap, sited on the roof of the Queen’s School of Geography, Archaeology; Palaeoecology, is the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland.

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Stress management programs like Transcendental Meditation should be implemented to significantly reduce depression, heart attacks, strokes and deaths in coronary heart disease patients, according to a new editorial written by a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute physician, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, and published in Archives of Internal Medicine. C.

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Today, on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day, we recognize the millions of Americans who suffer from this debilitating condition. PTSD affects a wide range of people, from new mothers to our country’s service men and women. PTSD affects about 5.2 million adult Americans, but women are more likely than men to develop it.

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Herpes infections on the lips, in the eyes or on the nose are painful, long-lasting and unpleasant. A new 3D herpes infection model brings hope: active ingredients and new treatments can be reliably tested with this model. Animal tests could soon be a thing of the past. It burns and itches on your upper lip: a herpes infection is on the advance.

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New research provides the best evidence to date that the late-day anxiety and agitation sometimes seen in older institutionalized adults, especially those with dementia, has a biological basis in the brain.

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Living through weddings or divorces, job losses and children’s triumphs, we sometimes feel better and sometimes feel worse. But, psychologists observe, we tend to drift back to a “set point”-a stable resting point, or baseline, in the mind’s level of contentment or unease. Research has shown that the set points for depression and anxiety are particularly stable over time.

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None of us are strangers to stress of various kinds. It turns out the effects of all those stresses can change the fate of future generation, influencing our very DNA without any change to the underlying sequence of As, Gs, Ts and Cs.

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Many people when stressed turn to high calorie “comfort foods”. Despite the contribution this behavior makes to the current obesity epidemic, little is known about the molecules and nervous system circuits that control it. Insight into this could provide new targets for the development of therapeutics to curb this potentially detrimental behavior.

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We are one step closer to deciphering why some stressed people indulge in chocolate, mashed potatoes, ice cream and other high-calorie, high-fat comfort foods. UT Southwestern Medical Center-led findings, in a mouse study, suggest that ghrelin the so-called “hunger hormone” is involved in triggering this reaction to high stress situations.

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Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.