Allergies May Raise Blood Cancer RiskThursday, November 18, 2004 NEW YORK (Reuters Health)--In contrast to some earlier reports, allergic conditions appear to increase, rather than decrease, the risk of leukemia and lymphoma, according to a Swedish study. Depending on the root cause of allergies, theories predict that allergic conditions … [Read more...]

Non-Smoking Lung CancerReported July 03, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) – About 15 percent of people with lung cancers have never smoked. A new study finds the cause could be linked to cells that cannot repair efficiently from environmental insults. The research was conducted by investigators from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Researchers drew white blood cells from … [Read more...]

New Weapon to Fight Pancreatic CancerReported April 21, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers may have found a new weapon to wield in the fight against one of the deadliest forms of cancer. A therapy combining the agents tigatuzumab and gemcitabine demonstrated the ability to cause remission of pancreatic cancer tumors in a recent study. The combined … [Read more...]

New Way to Treat Allergic Disorders   Reported August 01, 2007 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There may soon be a new way to get relief from allergy problems. Researchers in Amsterdam report taking allergens or auto-antigens orally using the lactic acid bacterium, Lactococcus lactis or L. lactis, as a delivery method might be a new strategy for treating various kinds of autoimmune … [Read more...]

New Tool Promotes Safe ImmunizationReported September 04, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Pediatricians now have a new tool to ensure nearly every child can be safely vaccinated against deadly diseases, including those who are allergic or suspected of being allergic to vaccine components. Developed by vaccine safety experts and researchers at Johns Hopkins, the … [Read more...]

New Guidelines for Pregnant Women With Asthma Reported January 12, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New guidelines for managing asthma during pregnancy reflect medications that have recently emerged and update treatment recommendations. The guidelines, established by the National Asthma Educational Prevention Program, … [Read more...]

New Discovery Could Offer Allergy Relief Reported March 31, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A molecule made up of cat and human proteins to block cat allergies successfully prevented allergic reactions in laboratory mice and in human cells. Researchers say this discovery could lead to a new therapy for cat allergies as well … [Read more...]

New Combo Therapy for Asthma Provides Relief Reported January 25, 2005 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- An inhaled corticosteroid (budesonide) coupled with a long-acting beta2-agonist (formoterol) can provide significant improvement of asthma symptoms with less reliance on high doses of inhaled steroid, … [Read more...]

New Asthma Gene Could Lead to New Treatments Reported July 6, 2007 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New treatments could be on the way after the discovery of a new asthma gene. Researchers from the United States, London, France, and Germany looked at more than 2,000 children. They found genetic markers on chromosome 17 that dramatically increase a child's risk for asthma. Children … [Read more...]

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Mothers-to-be Need Vitamin E Reported September 4, 2006 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A child's risk of developing asthma may be established long before he ever takes his first breath. According to a new study out of the Scotland, kids born to mothers who consumed the lowest levels of vitamin E while … [Read more...]

More Peanut Butter, Please!Reported May 05, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If you’re one of the 1.5 million people in the United States suffering from a peanut allergy, there’s good news. Experts anticipate some form of immunotherapy for peanut allergy to be available within the next five years. Peanut allergy is becoming more common, but it is … [Read more...]

Mom’s Obesity Linked to Asthma in KidsReported May 20, 2009 (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Here’s another reason to maintain a healthy weight: obese women are more likely to end up with children who have asthma. This finding comes from researchers in The Netherlands who followed nearly 4,000 children from before birth up to age eight. About 20 percent of their mothers were … [Read more...]

Mom’s Diet Can Cause Asthma?Reported September 22, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A mother who has a diet rich in folate, an important prenatal supplement, could increase the chance that her infant will suffer from asthma after birth, according to a new Duke University study. Scientists gathered evidence in mice that had diets rich in methyl donors, one source … [Read more...]

Mice Help Treat SinusitisReported July 28, 2008 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Some stuffy nosed mice may help doctors treat humans with sinus conditions. An estimated 31 million Americans suffer with chronic sinusitis, persistent inflammation of the tissue lining the nasal and sinus cavities. Millions more have compromised sinus conditions from viral infections, head … [Read more...]

Artificial Lung Saves Lives   Reported September 06, 2007 (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Athletes expect to be a little out of breath at the end of a strenuous workout. But for many, it's more than just a little breathlessness. It's exercise-induced asthma (EIB). That's the key finding of Ohio State University investigators in Columbus who ran about 100 varsity athletes from the … [Read more...]

Time for asthma patients to go to newer inhalers, U.S. FDA saysReported May 30, 2008 WASHINGTON - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will quit selling at year's end - and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives. Patients use inhalers that dispense airway-relaxing albuterol … [Read more...]

New Asthma Guidelines Urge Daily ControlReported August 29, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Breathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers' day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks. Some 22 million Americans have asthma, and guidelines updated Wednesday by the National Institutes of … [Read more...]

First randomized trial finds breastfeeding doesn't lower asthma, allergy riskReported September 11, 2007 TORONTO (CP) - The first ever randomized trial to look at the much debated question of whether breastfeeding protects an infant from developing asthma and allergies found that children who were breastfed as babies were not at a lower risk of developing these … [Read more...]

Prolonged maternal stress appears to boost child's risk of asthma: study Reported January 15, 2008 TORONTO - Children whose mothers suffer prolonged depression or anxiety appear to have a higher rate of asthma than other youngsters, independent of other risk factors for the increasingly common respiratory condition, a Canadian study suggests. The study, which analyzed … [Read more...]

Higher asthma rates in first-born kids linked to pregnancy conditions: studyReported May 20, 2008 TORONTO - First-born children are known to have a higher risk for developing asthma and allergies than their younger siblings, and researchers suggest part of the reason may lie in the womb. A study of 1,200 children on the U.K.'s Isle of Wight, followed from birth into … [Read more...]

Staph infection becoming more common among local athletesReported November 06, 2007 An infection is on the rise in local athletes. As the Healthline 3 Team discovered, they're called staph infections and they can be quite dangerous. Which is why one local doctor says everyone needs to protect themselves. "I'm thinking just a pimple it'll go away and that's nothing." But … [Read more...]

Nearly 100 Infected with Hepatitis C at Las Vegas Endoscopy Center.Reported May 19, 2008 To date, officials have linked 84 cases of Hepatitis C that have turned up in Las Vegas to the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, where all those infected received treatment. A CDC report released Friday officially confirms the cause of the outbreak and—based on state and federal … [Read more...]

Bars hit by smoking ban sell nicotine dispensersReported June 09, 2008 LAS VEGAS -- Check out Sharon Cottrell's cigarette. It's not, really. And it gets her around Nevada's no-smoking laws. The thing she's holding between her fingers and drawing to her mouth looks like a pen. It's got a battery. And that's not smoke but what's left of water vapor that carries nicotine … [Read more...]

Asthma risk increases in children treated for HIVReported June 11, 2008 HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2008) -- Children whose immune systems rebound after treatment with potent anti-viral drugs for HIV infection face an increased risk of developing asthma, said a federally funded consortium of researchers led by those from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online … [Read more...]

Peanut allergies strike earlier, study saysReported December 03, 2007 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Allergies to peanuts and other foods are showing up in children at younger ages for reasons that are not clear, researchers said on Monday, and some urged parents to postpone exposing susceptible children to peanuts. In a study of 140 children with peanut allergies, the median age of … [Read more...]

Expert advice changes for preventing allergies in infants and children Reported January 07, 2008 CHICAGO - Breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months. That's the word from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is … [Read more...]