Are You Allergic To Your Home? Proper Spring Cleaning Can Combat Allergens
As allergy-sufferers nationwide tackle their nose nemeses or keep scratching their heads - literally - in the quest to identify the source of their allergen angst, they can consider these tips for combating allergies in the home. The most common allergens are dust mites and animal dander found mostly inside, not outside, the home sweet home. The
Specific Immune Therapy Works For Many People And It Is Becoming Increasingly Popular In Europe
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has assessed recent evidence on allergies. It found that the once controversial immune therapy against allergy symptoms can definitely help many people with allergies. When it is green and the flowers have returned, the allergy season has hit its peak. And the number of people affected is still rising.
Morria Biopharmaceuticals Plc Announces Regulatory Approval To Commence Phase II Clinical Study Of MRX-4 In Allergic Rhinitis
Morria Biopharmaceuticals Plc, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel anti-inflammatory drugs, announced that it has obtained regulatory approval from the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC) to initiate a Phase II study of MRX-4 in 105 patients suffering from allergic rhinitis (AR). The two-arm, randomized, multi-dose, double-blind, placebo-controlled study includes a steroid comparator arm.
Gluten-Free Bread Mix Sweeps The Board At First Ever Free-From Food Awards, UK
Roleys's teff and corn based gluten-free bread mix carried off the winner's trophy this month at first ever Free-from Food Awards, organised by Foods Matter, the UK's only magazine for food allergy, intolerance and sensitivity sufferers.A packed gathering heard Foods Matter Editor, Michelle Berridale-Johnson, explain why Foods Matter had decided to launch the awards and the criteria on which they had judged the very wide variety of entries.
New Data Demonstrate Efficacy Of Aerius R Desloratadine In Reducing Allergy Symptoms In Patients With Intermittent Allergic Rhinitis
New data presented at the XXVII Congress of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) in Barcelona, Spain, demonstrate AERIUS (desloratadine) significantly reduces allergy symptoms, including nasal congestion, sneezing, rhinorrhea, nasal pruritus and ocular pruritus, in patients with intermittent allergic rhinitis (IAR) who experience symptoms lasting less than four days per week or less than four weeks per year.
Treatment Costs Nearly Double For Hay Fever And Other Allergies
Americans spent $11 billion on doctors' bills, prescription drugs, and other medical care to relieve allergy symptoms such as itchy or watery eyes, stuffy noses, wheezing, coughing, and headaches in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The cost is nearly double the $6 billion spent in 2000.
The European Union Funds Researchers From 5 Countries To Test Hygiene Hypothesis
High living standards and the life style connected to them seem to promote the development of autoimmune diseases and allergic symptoms. This has lead to the assumption that the immune system begins to overreact to the organism's own structures or to exogenous non-infectious proteins, i.e. allergens, when it does not have to work hard enough to protect the individual from infections.
12 Million Invested In Improving The Health Of Children Suffering From Asthma And Allergies
Mike Wallace, Member of Parliament for Burlington, has announced, on behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, a joint investment of $12 million over six years for a research project that will investigate the genetic and environmental factors that influence the development of asthma and allergies in children. This project, known as the CHILD study, is co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and AllerGen NCE Inc.
Asthma Rates Soaring Among Adult Hospital Patients, USA
Hospitals are finding that increasing numbers of adults who are admitted to the hospital for other conditions also have asthma, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Asthma is a chronic disease that causes wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and difficulty breathing. Causes of the disease are unclear, but the number of Americans diagnosed with asthma is rising.
Stress During Childhood Increases The Risk Of Allergies
Moving house or the separation of parents can significantly increase the risk of children developing allergies later on. These are the results from a long-term study correlating life-style, immune system development and allergies, led by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig (UFZ), the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and the "Institut f~A 1/4 r Umweltmedizinische Forschung" (IUF) in Duesseldorf.