Allergy & Immunology News 
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Balancing Protection And Inflammation In MS
Scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism that could help explain how multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases can be exacerbated by the onset of an infection. MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system which affects approximately 100,000 people in the UK. The research, directed by Dr Bruno Gran at The University of Nottingham, focused on a population of cells of the immune system known as regulatory T cells, which control and regulate the behaviour of other immune cells. The results of this study have been published in the Journal of Immunology...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 21, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Multiple Sclerosis Source Type: news
Bird Flu Studies Can Be Published After All: WHO
Title: Bird Flu Studies Can Be Published After All: WHOCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/18/2012 2:05:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 2/21/2012
Source: MedicineNet Allergies General - February 21, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Seniors Need to Reevaluate Their Needs for Popular Medical Treatments: The KHN Interview
Nortin Hadler, a professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been warning for years about the lack of evidence supporting many popular medical treatments and tests.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Quality/Equality - February 21, 2012 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
ALLERGY RELIEF (Diphenhydramine Hcl) Tablet, Coated [L.N.K. International, Inc.]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
DG HEALTH ALLERGY (Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride) Capsule [Dolgencorp, LLC]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
SINUS AND ALLERGY (Chlorpheniramine Maleate And Phenylephrine Hcl) Tablet [Stephen L. LaFrance Pharmacy, Inc.]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
GOOD NEIGHBOR PHARMACY ALL DAY ALLERGY D (Cetirizine Hcl, Pseudoephedrine Hcl) Tablet, Extended Release [Amerisource Bergen]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
SINUS AND ALLERGY PE (Chlorpheniramine Maleate And Phenylephrine Hcl) Tablet [Safeway]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
SINUS AND ALLERGY PE (Chlorpheniramine Maleate And Phenylephrine Hcl) Tablet [WOONSOCKET PRESCRIPTION CENTER,INCORPORATED]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
SINUS AND ALLERGY RELIEF PE (Chlorpheniramine Maleate And Phenylephrine Hcl) Tablet [Rite Aid]
Updated Date: Feb 21, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 21, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Immunity and Cancer -- Understanding the Immune System, Including Autoimmune Thyroid Conditions -- a comprehensive online guide to understanding the immune system, its anatomy, disorders, and other key information
Immunity and Cancer / Understanding the Immune System, a comprehensive online guide to understanding the immune system, its anatomy, disorders, and other key information, adapted by your Thyroid Guide, Mary Shomon. Updated 2002: This information has been made available from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Immune and autoimmune conditions are discussed, including common thyroid conditions like Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
Source: About.com Eating Disorders - February 21, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: exercise.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Mild winter may mean early allergy season
Source: Baylor College of Medicine News - February 21, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Allergy Tests Needed Before New Knee or Hip (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Preoperative skin patch testing for metal allergy influenced treatment planning in two-thirds of a small cohort of patients scheduled to receive metal-containing prosthetic devices, a retrospective chart review showed.
Source: MedPage Today Allergy - February 20, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Owning cat doubles allergy risk in adults: Which cats carry lower risk?
Study finds bringing cat in home as first pet raises adults' allergy risk 85 percent
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - February 20, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Home visits for asthma: a win for both patients and payers
Marquis and his mother (middle) received educational home visits from Children’s nurse manager Massiel Ortiz
The journal Pediatrics released a study from Children’s Hospital Boston that shows a preventative approach to treating asthma can keep kids out of the Emergency Department (ED) and save money on health care spending.
The study is based on data collected by Children’s Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), which has been working closely with low-income residents of Boston with asthma since 2005. By sending nurse practitioners and community health workers into the homes of families whose children are freque...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - February 20, 2012 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Asthma & allergies Children's in the news Community Asthma Initiative health care costs health care reform at children's hospitals Source Type: news
New Insights Into Exercise-induced BronchoconstrictionNew Insights Into Exercise-induced Bronchoconstriction
Airway hyper-responsiveness to exercise or cold air at an early age are among the strongest predictors of persistent asthma, but what do they tell us about stress responses? Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy & Clinical Immunology Journal Article Source Type: news
Donor chains change kidney transplants
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Doctors say advances in technology and immunology, as well as the kindness of strangers, have improved the numbers for those in need of kidney donors.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Elimination Diet
definition: elimination diet page nbsp food allergy food allergies food sensitivity
Source: About.com Eating Disorders - February 18, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: exercise.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
Vaccine developed to protect against norovirus or 'winter vomiting bug'
A vaccine for norovirus, which is highly infectious and is difficult to kill by cleaning, could be availabe within five yearsA vaccine against the highly infectious winter vomiting bug that strikes thousands of people in Britain each year is close to being tested in humans.Doctors have approached government funders to begin human trials after laboratory tests showed the vaccine could prevent people from succumbing to the infection.Researchers said the technical issues in formulating the vaccine appeared to be solved, and that regulators now had to assess the treatment's suitability for full-scale clinical trials.The stomac...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 17, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: AAAS Immunology Infectious diseases Microbiology Medical research Science Health Society & wellbeing Life and style The Guardian News Source Type: news
Want an asthma-free child? Get a pet while you are pregnant
Mothers who spend time with animals during their pregnancy are less likely to have children with allergies and asthma, a Detroit study has revealed.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 17, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nerve-Driven Immunity
Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System“Nerve-Driven Immunity: Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides in the Immune System” summarizes, analyzes and sheds new light on an unrecognized, yet very important role of key neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the immune system.Each chapter of the book deals with a different neurotransmitter/neuropeptide from the following list: Dopamine, Adrenaline, Noradrenaline, Acetylcholine, Glutamate, ...
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - February 17, 2012 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Immunology Source Type: news
Discovery Of New Molecule Could Lead To New Treatments For Allergy
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite. The team of immunologists led by Dr Amir Ghaem-Maghami and Professor Farouk Shakib in the University's School of Molecular Medical Sciences have identified the molecule DC-SIGN which appears to play a role in damping down the body's allergic response to the house dust mite ...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 17, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy Source Type: news
hydrocortisone valerate, Westcort
Title: hydrocortisone valerate, WestcortCategory: MedicationsCreated: 4/4/1999 6:03:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 2/17/2012
Source: MedicineNet Allergies General - February 17, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Transfused RBC freshness not tied to pulmonary complications
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A preliminary study suggests that use of "fresh" rather
than standard stored red blood cells (RBC) during transfusion has no effect on early measures of pulmonary function
nor immunologic or coagulation status.
Source: Modern Medicine - February 17, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
ALLERGY ITCH EASE (Arum Triph, Viola Tri. , Comocladia, Chamomilla, Cina ) Granule [Feelgood Health]
Updated Date: Feb 17, 2012 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven days (since May 20, 2007 EST) - February 17, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Spring Allergies Strike Early This Year
Got a stuffy nose, sore throat, watery eyes, or throbbing head? In February, those symptoms are usually caused by a cold or the flu, but this year, the culprit could be allergies.
Source: WebMD Health - February 17, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Findings on HIV-Resistant Sex Workers May Help Vaccine Efforts
Study suggests blocking virus from entering the body is better
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Infections - February 16, 2012 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Gynecology, Infections, AIDS, Immunology, News, Source Type: news
Genome Map Might Help Save Tasmanian Devil From Extinction
Research may spur strategies to stop spread of facial cancer that threatens species
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Oncology - February 16, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Infections, Nursing, Oncology, Research, Immunology, News, Source Type: news
Grass immunotherapy lasts at least two years post-treatment
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sublingual grass immunotherapy shows lasting disease-modifying effects in
patients with pollen allergies, according to a study that followed patients for two years after three years of
treatment.
Source: Modern Medicine - February 16, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
HIV Resistance Among Many Sex Workers In Africa
According to a new study, HIV-resistant sex workers in Africa have a weak inflammatory response in their vaginas. The researchers, led by Dr. Michel Roger of the University of Montreal Hospital Centre and the university's Department of Microbiology and Immunology, were surprised by this finding, as they expected the opposite, due to the women's high exposure to the virus. Roger explained: "In this part of the world, women represent over 60% of HIV cases, and this proportion continues to increase...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 15, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news
Self and Nonself
series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and BiologyIn 1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet received the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He titled his Nobel Lecture “Immunological Recognition of Self” emphasizing the central argument of immunological tolerance in “How does the vertebrate organism recognize self from nonself in this the immunological sense—and how did the capacity evolve.” The concept of self is linked to the concept of ...
Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles - February 15, 2012 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Immunology Source Type: news
New molecule discovered in fight against allergy
Scientists have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 15, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news
Antibiotics Do Not Reduce Symptoms of Sinus Infection
Title: Antibiotics Do Not Reduce Symptoms of Sinus InfectionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/15/2012 11:01:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/15/2012
Source: MedicineNet Allergies General - February 15, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Swimmer's Ear
Title: Swimmer's EarCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/31/1997Last Editorial Review: 2/15/2012
Source: MedicineNet Allergies General - February 15, 2012 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
New Findings In Drug-Induced Receptor Activity Using Roche's xCELLigence System
A research team led by Dr. Michel Bouvier at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the University of Montreal in Quebec, used the Roche xCELLigence SP Instrument to measure changes in cell response following ligand stimulation (Stallaert et al., 2012, PloS ONE 7(1): e29420).
Source: Pharmaceutical Online News - February 15, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New molecule discovered in fight against allergy
(University of Nottingham) Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 15, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Biogen Idec to Acquire Stromedix
-- Stromedix Brings Highly Differentiated Candidate for
Treatment of Fibrosis and Core Scientific Team Focused on the Phase
2 program --
-- Acquisition Complements Biogen Idec's Scientific Expertise
and Core Capabilities in Immunology --
WESTON...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 14, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Immune Responses to Candida albicans in Models of In Vitro Reconstituted Human Oral Epithelium
In this protocol, we describe the application of commercially available three-dimensional organotypic tissues of human oral mucosa to study the interaction between Candida albicans and epithelial cells. Infection experiments show high reproducibility and can be used to analyse directly pathogen/epithelial cell interactions. However, the system is also very flexible. Using histological, biochemical, immunological, and molecular methods, it is possible to analyse several stages of infection by C. albicans wild type or mutant strains and demonstrate the consequence of disrupting genes encoding putative virulence factors requi...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Microbiology - February 14, 2012 Category: Microbiology Source Type: news
Interactions Between Macrophages and Cell Wall Oligosaccharides of Candida albicans
The fungal cell wall is the armour that protects the cell from changes in the external environment. The wall of Candida albicans, an opportunistic human pathogen, is also the immediate point of contact with the host immune system and contains most of the pathogen-associated molecular patterns recognised by innate immune cells. Along with the use of mutants altered in cell wall composition, the isolation and purification of cell wall components has proven useful in the identification of receptors involved in the sensing of these molecules, and assessment of the relative relevance of ligand-receptor interactions during the s...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Microbiology - February 14, 2012 Category: Microbiology Source Type: news
Robust Repair Response Found In Arthritic Knees, But Not Hips
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used new tools they developed to analyze knees and hips and discovered that osteoarthritic knee joints are in a constant state of repair, while hip joints are not. "This suggests the knee has capacity for repair we didn't know about and the main treatment strategy probably would need to focus on turning off the breakdown of knee tissue," said Virginia Kraus, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Rheumatology and Immunology at Duke. "I was hugely surprised to find this...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 14, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Arthritis / Rheumatology Source Type: news
A kiss can trigger food, drug allergy
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Brushing teeth or waiting hours after eating may not prevent some with food or medicine allergies from triggering a reaction with a kiss, U.S. allergists said.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 14, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Photo Release -- Make No Mistake - Medline's New Glove Package Design Helps Workers Easily Identify if Product Contains Latex
MUNDELEIN, Ill., Feb. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Healthcare employees work in a fast-paced environment where even the simplest mistakes can have serious consequences -- like accidently using a latex exam glove when the worker or patient has a latex allergy. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), 8-12 percent of health care workers are latex sensitive with reactions ranging from irritant contact dermatitis and allergic contact sensitivity, to immediate, possibly life-threatening, sensitivity. Another three million people in the United States are estimated to have latex allergies, according ...
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - February 13, 2012 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Study probes protein that may block HIV
Conclusion
This interesting research has shown that a protein called SAMHD1 breaks up DNA buildings blocks (dNTPS). This limits HIV infection in cells that express high levels of SAMHD1, like the immune system’s dendritic cells (antigen presenting cells). The researchers conclude from their lab tests that reducing the levels of dNTPs could potentially protect cells from any infectious agent that needs to make DNA.
However, while this laboratory based study has found some rather intriguing results, the ability to translate its finding into a therapy for limiting infection is hampered by one key fact: DNA reproduction is a...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
The woman so allergic to water that she can't even kiss her fiance
Even a few drops of saliva from Lee Warwick, 26, will bring Rachel Prince, 24, from Ripley, Derbyshire, out in a rash thanks to a rare condition called aquagenic urticaria.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
4 medication classes linked to 67% of drug-related hospitalizations
Adverse drug events are important preventable causes of hospitalization in older adults.
4 medications linked to 67% of drug-related hospitalizations
Four medications or medication classes were implicated alone or in combination in 67% of hospitalizations:
- warfarin, 33%
- insulins, 14%
- oral antiplatelet agents, 13%
- oral hypoglycemic agents, 11%
High-risk medications were implicated in only 1.2% of hospitalizations.
50% of these hospitalizations were among adults 80 years of age or older. 65% of hospitalizations were due to unintentional overdoses.
Classification of adverse reactions to drugs: "SOAP III" m...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - February 13, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Medications Source Type: news
Health roundup: Allergies, memory loss, names
Allergy season may be starting early, eating lightly may be good for your memory and an easy-to-say name may be good for your career.
Source: USATODAY.com Health - February 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Protein Protects Cells From HIV Infection
A novel discovery by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and colleagues reveals a mechanism by which the immune system tries to halt the spread of HIV. Harnessing this mechanism may open up new paths for therapeutic research aimed at slowing the virus' progression to AIDS. The study appears online ahead of print today in Nature Immunology. "A lot of research on viruses, especially HIV, is aimed at trying to understand what the body's mechanisms of resistance are and then to understand how the virus has gotten around these mechanisms," said co-lead investigator Nathaniel R...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news
New Study Reveals Secrets Of Immune Response
When disease-causing invaders like bacteria infect a human host, cells of various types swing into action, coordinating their activities to address the threat. In new research appearing in this month's issue of the journal Nature Immunology, Roy Curtiss, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, along with international collaborators, investigates the coordination of a particular type of immune response, involving the release of of IFN-λ - a cell-signaling protein molecule known as a cytokine...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 13, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
