Allergies/Immunology

Atlanta, October 3: According to the latest release by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1.1 million Americans are infected with HIVdefine.

London, October 3: The number of sick leaves a worker avails could help predict if he runs a risk of an early death, according to the results of a new British study.

London, September 25: For kids, swimming pool makes a good place to cool off on a sizzling summer day. But, swimming in outdoor chlorinated pools can increase children’s risk of developing asthma, warns a new study.

People who take paracetamol regularly are at a significantly high risk of developing Asthma, an allergic inflammatory disease of the airways, suggests a new research.

Children delivered through caesarian, with asthmatic parents, have greater chances of developing allergic rhinitis and atopy, say US researchers.

In a first ever study of its kind, establishing the relationship between allergic ailments in school going kids and delivery by caesarian section, the US researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston have been able to find that caesarian children who have either or both the parents suffering from asthma, tend to get more prone to developing allergic rhinitis and atopy.

It’s a success story, applauded by all, for the chicken pox vaccine that has helped slash the occurrence of the serious, yet not so seriously taken disease, by around 90% in children, bringing down death rates world over. The celebrations however are tainted with concerns for the large number of kids still going unprotected.

Flu shots commonly believed to protect the elderly from potentially deadly diseases, especially pneumonia, are currently under the scanner, as a Canadian research team, believing the claims to be over exaggerated, has challenged the widely held view based on its own study.

Misjudging the gravity of their problem, most food-allergic students across the colleges in the US are not avoiding the foods they shouldn’t eat, a new study at the University of Michigan found.

A new study done at Stanford University has brought forth a disturbing fact about the drug nevirapine. This drug is actually used in developing countries to prevent transmission of HIVdefine from the mother to her baby.