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Thursday May 17, 2012
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  • News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: April 23, 2012 - MNT Allergy (Tuesday, 24 April) - GENE THERAPY: Inadvertent changes: how engineered viruses disrupt normal gene expression Gene therapy holds the promise of treating genetic conditions by restoring normal gene function. The field has developed slowly over the last several decades with high importance placed on safety to reduce the chance that introduced genes cause problems......
  • No Link Between Depression, Nasal Obstruction - MNT Allergy (Monday, 23 April) - While mood disorders like depression or anxiety tend to negatively affect treatment for allergies and chronic rhinosinusitis, the same cannot be said for patients with nasal obstructions such as deviated septum, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. The new study shows mood disorders are not linked to either nasal...
  • Autism Linked To Immune System Problems, Further Evidence Found - MNT Allergy (Thursday, 19 April) - According to a study in the April 2012 International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, the plasma of children with autism disorder (AD) had significantly lower levels of various cytokines, compared with that of unrelated healthy siblings from other families, who had family members with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)......
  • Coronary Stents Safe For Those Allergic To Metals - MNT Allergy (Wednesday, 18 April) - In the April 16 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a study conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, reveals that coronary stents are not harmful to patients with coronary artery disease, who are allergic to nickle or other metal components. Coronary stents are small tubes inserted into narrowed or weakened arteries...
  • Hookworms And Allergies - Doctor Infects Himself For Experiment - MNT Allergy (Wednesday, 18 April) - In the first experiment of its kind to test the suggestion that hookworm infection can reduce some allergic responses, a UK doctor who specializes in medical entomology, infected himself with the parasite and then swallowed a pill camera to film the effect on his intestines......
  • Study Suggests Coronary Stents Not Harmful To Patients With History Of Metal Allergy - MNT Allergy (Wednesday, 18 April) - Study is first to compare clinical outcomes after placing stents in those with and without a history of skin allergy to stent metal components......
  • A Vaccination For Allergic Asthma That Works Using Intramuscular Injection - MNT Allergy (Monday, 9 April) - Allergic asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that affects 300 million people throughout the world. The number of people suffering from asthma has doubled over the last ten years and almost 250, 000 people die prematurely from this problem each year. In most cases, asthma is caused by an abnormal...
  • Food Ingredients That Cause Milk Allergy May Be Missed By Standard Test - MNT Allergy (Friday, 30 March) - The standard test used to detect milk-protein residues in processed foods may not work as well as previously believed in all applications, sometimes missing ingredients that can cause milk allergy, the most common childhood food allergy, which affects millions of children under age 3, a scientist reported at the 243rd...
  • New Regulator Identified In Allergic Diseases - MNT Allergy (Thursday, 29 March) - Researchers have taken a critical step in understanding how allergic reactions occur after identifying a genetic signature for regulation of a key immune hormone, interleukin (IL-13). Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease......
  • Gut Bacteria Control Allergic Diseases - MNT Allergy (Tuesday, 27 March) - When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine - ten times more cells than comprise the body itself......