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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has asked Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc. to develop a vaccine that protects against Ebola and Marburg viruses.
The Germantown-based company will get $22 million under the multiyear contract, and if options are exercised, could get $65 million.
Ebola and Marburg, which are considered bioterrorist threats, lead to death 30 percent to 90 percent of the time that they are contracted, and there are currently no vaccines or therapeutics to treat infected humans.
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Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found.
University of Manchester scientists found that pills used to treat everyday fungal infections greatly improved symptoms of asthma in those patients that had an allergic reaction to one or more fungi.
The study, carried out at four hospitals in northwest England and published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , is the first to show that antifungal therapy can improve the symptoms of those who suffer from severe asthma.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 3 million U.S. children have a food or digestive allergy — an 18 percent increase over the past 10 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday.
Eight types of food account for 90 percent of these food allergies: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy and wheat, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics found.
Reactions range from a tingling sensation around the mouth and lips, to hives and sometimes even death in the most severe cases.
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When it comes to medications to treat insomnia, there are many options to choose from. They include drugs created specifically to treat insomnia, drugs designed for other uses which also help promote sleep, and over the counter medications. Medicines commonly used as sleep aids include: - FDA approved prescription sleep medications (hypnotics) - Antidepressants - Antipsychotic medications - Over-the-counter (OTC) Medicines, such as antihistamines, are also commonly used as sleep aids.
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SUNDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) — An apple a day while you’re pregnant may indeed keep the doctor away. But the real beneficiary could be your unborn child.
Recent research suggests that when moms-to-be eat apples during pregnancy, their offspring have lower rates of asthma.
And, mothers who consume fish during pregnancy may lower their child’s risk of developing the allergic skin condition called eczema.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Contrary to widespread recommendations, the consumption of peanuts in infancy is associated with a low prevalence of peanut allergy, the results of a new study suggest.
“Our study findings raise the question of whether early introduction rather than avoidance of peanut in infancy is the better strategy for the prevention of peanut allergy,” write researchers in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 — The number of American kids with food allergies has soared 18 percent in the last decade, with an estimated 4 percent of children and teens now affected with the condition, a new federal report says.
In 2007, approximately 3 million children under the age of 18 were reported to have had a food or digestive allergy in the previous 12 months, compared to slightly more than 2.3 million children (3.3 percent) in 1997, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Kevin: That’s a neat way to prepare it. Weston Price was a dentist so let’s talk about teeth. And let’s talk about what happens when people’s teeth start to decay. Can you rebuild those and what do you think some of the reasons why their teeth were so good, the cultures who were eating a non-Western diet?
Sally: Well their teeth were normal. I don’t even like to use the word “good”; they’re the way teeth are supposed to be. They were normal. A key nutrient here is vitamin K. Now Dr. Price didn’t know what this vitamin was, he called it activator X, but we have now identified it pretty firmly as vitamin K and we know that people who have a lot of vitamin K in their saliva don’t get cavities. And vitamin K is absolutely necessary for putting calcium in the teeth and bones, calcium and phosphorus. You need vitamin K for that, more than just for healthy blood. We now realize you need vitamin K for healthy teeth and bones.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Indigo naturalis, a dark blue plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, appears to be effective in treating psoriasis, a study in Taiwan has found.
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease for which no cure is known, though some therapies bring about a remission. It causes red scaly patches, or plaques, which take on a silvery-white appearance and often occur on the arms, elbows, knees and legs.
A study of the findings of a clinical trial involving 42 patients who had had the condition for at least two years was published in the latest issue of Archives of Dermatology.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Direct administration of an allergen - the substance that triggers an allergic reaction — into the lymph nodes, rather than the skin, reduces both the number and dose of injections required to induce tolerance to the offending substance, researchers report. This appears to offer a rapid, save and effective way to treat IgE-mediated allergies.
We demonstrated that this approach enhanced safety, efficacy, and compliance. The procedure allowed “reduction of the number of injections from 54 to 3, and reduction in the cumulative allergen dose by more than 1000-fold,” Dr. Thomas M. Kundig from University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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