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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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Child food allergies are up 18% over the last decade, the CDC reports.
Four out of every 100 U.S. kids under age 18 now suffer food allergies, which doubles their risk of asthma and triples their risk of skin or respiratory allergies.
“It is a significant trend — food allergies do appear to be continuously increasing over the decade,” CDC health statistician Amy Barnum, MSPH , tells WebMD. “And if you look at hospital discharges with any diagnosis related to food allergy, there has been a significant increase.”
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In this modern world nowadays, cooking is not only about producing tasty foods but it must be a healthy diet as well. Top chefs in all 5 star restaurants only use filtered clean water for their cooking and hence able to preserve the original taste of the recipe. Using unfiltered water, the chlorine presence can really spoil the taste of the foods even how great is your cooking skill. The chlorine is commonly use to kill and curb organic growth in the water, imagine what can the chlorine do to our foods which are all organic. Will you still be able to maintain the original flavor of the foods and produce a tasty recipe out of it?
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All molds and mildews are friends of human beings. They participate in a major task of ecosystem. Without these microscopic organisms bio-degradation is not possible on earth. Natural degradation or bio-degradation is an important phase of earth’s ecosystem. Complex organic substances are transformed into simpler form by molds and mildews.
At the same time, these fungi create a lot of problem for human beings. The problem reaches such a height that everybody starts thinking how to kill mold and how to get rid of them. Mold problem takes such a bigger shape in humid season or after flood and water damage that everybody talks about remediation.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 11 — A Swiss-led study appears to point the way toward a faster, safer and less painful treatment for grass pollen allergy by using direct injections into the lymph node.
Compared with traditional under-the-skin shot regimens lasting several years and involving dozens of injections, the new method appears to offer patients the same degree of relief — with fewer side effects — with just three shots over two months.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Children under 4 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies, drug companies said Tuesday in a concession to pediatricians who doubt the drugs work in kids and worry about their safety.
The voluntary changes came less than a week after federal health officials said they also saw little evidence that the drugs work, but feared that parents would give kids adult medicines if the products were taken off store shelves.
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HIV patients who began treatment earlier than is currently recommended lived longer compared to those who followed guidelines, US and Canadian researchers found.
HIV virus ravages the immune system?s T-cells that fight off germs. Once this process begins, people are vulnerable to a series of diseases that can be fatal. Current guidelines by the government and the International AIDS Society recommend that patients who are not yet having AIDS symptoms delay starting on retroviral drugs until their T-cell count fall below 350 per cubic millimeter of blood. Healthy people have more than 800. The recommendation was given as retroviral drugs can cause heart and cholesterol problems, diarrhea, nausea and other side effects.
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MONDAY, Nov. 10 — The number of U.S. children allergic to foods such as peanuts, milk and fish is rising rapidly.
At the same time, researchers are working on new approaches to treating these allergies, according to two reports to be presented Monday at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s annual meeting, in Seattle.
An estimated 3 million children under 18 had a food allergy in 2007, an 18 percent increase since 1997, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Milk may be a treatment for milk allergy. In a carefully controlled study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Duke University found that giving milk-allergic children milk in increasingly higher doses over time eased their allergic reactions to milk and even helped some of the children completely overcome their milk allergy.
The findings suggest that giving milk-allergic children milk “gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions,” Dr. Robert Wood, senior investigator on the study and director of Allergy & Immunology at Hopkins Children’s in Baltimore, noted in a statement.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on AIDS research funding and add to the problems plaguing the search for a vaccine against the virus, scientists warned Tuesday.
Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it was impossible to predict whether scientists would ever be able to develop an effective vaccine, as they have for other killers such as smallpox and measles.
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