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Smoking bans may benefit kids with asthma NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with asthma who live in areas with "smoke-free" laws may suffer fewer bouts of coughing and wheezing as a result, a new study suggests. The findings, ...

... on the questionnaire -- 9.2 versus 6.4. The gap remained after the researchers accounted for other factors that could affect mental health such as asthma, physical activity and the families' income and housing situations. Still, it can't be ruled out that some unmeasured factor played a role. Children ...

Incense burning tied to asthma in some children NEW YORK (Reuters) - Children from homes where incense is regularly burned have a higher risk of developing asthma, according to a Taiwanese study suggesting that a particular genetic variation ...

... India's 5,000-year-old traditional system of Ayurveda, turmeric enjoys a long history of use for the treatment of respiratory conditions including asthma and allergy, coughs, sinusitis, for liver disorders, for rheumatism and to treat diabetic wounds. The compound in turmeric most responsible for ...

... Allergy, gives some support to the idea that our increasingly germ-free surroundings may be contributing to a worldwide increase in allergies and asthma in recent decades -- a theory known as "the hygiene hypothesis." It's thought that exposure to viruses and other pathogens early in ...

... they found. This exposure was estimated to have caused 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 from lower respiratory infections, 36,900 from asthma and 21,400 from lung cancer. For the full impact of smoking, these deaths should be added to the estimated 5.1 million deaths a year attributable ...

... be associated with a facial, often itchy rash. During a presentation on skin allergies, at a recent meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Dr. Luz Fonacier, an allergist and dermatologist who discussed this condition said, "Increased use of cell phones has led ...

... (petasites hybridus) is a shrub found in Europe and the U.S. and both leaf and root extracts contain compounds which have been used to treat asthma and migraine headaches. See various studies listed at Pubmed.gov, an archive of medical journal articles maintained by the U.S. National Institutes ...

... construction materials. Because oVOCs can combine with nitrogen oxides to form ozone, they can contribute to lung inflammation and swelling and asthma attacks, according to the American Lung Association. Karl, lead author of the study published in the journal Science, worked with other scientists ...

Food Allergies Linked to Asthma Risk Study Also Shows Children Are at Greater Risk for Food Allergies Than Adults About three of every 100 people in the U.S. have at least one food allergy, and the presence of a food allergy may raise ...

... The same techniques, Feinberg and colleagues suggest, can be used to look for epigenetic changes linked to diseases such as autism, diabetes, asthma, and bipolar disorder -- or even life span. Feinberg and colleagues report their findings in the Sept. 15 online issue of Science Translational ...

Vitamin D May Improve Asthma Control Study Links Vitamin D Deficiency and Asthma Severity Vitamin D is the new "it" vitamin. A number of studies link its deficiency to a host of medical conditions, including heart disease, ...

... of breastfeeding scored higher on cognitive tests at 4 years of age compared to children whose mothers did not take supplements of DHA and EPA. Asthma risk. A 2008 study found that the teenage children of women who took fish oil during pregnancy were less likely to have developed asthma. Growth. ...

... been the subject of much research of late, with studies linking low vitamin D levels in the blood to higher risks of type 1 diabetes and severe asthma attacks in children and, in adults, heart disease, certain cancers and depression. But whether vitamin D is the reason for the excess risks -- ...

... can help with high triglycerides and elevated lipid and cholesterol levels. Additional research is starting to look at the supplement's effect on asthma, ADHD, depression, atherosclerosis, and age-related macular degeneration. Bottom line: There's a growing body of evidence suggesting that fish ...