Vitamin D supplements can reduce COPD lung disease flare-ups by over 40% in patients with a vitamin D deficiency – according to new research from Queen Mary University of London. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) includes conditions such as chronic...
Scientists have taken an important step toward a new class of antibiotics aimed at stopping lung infections. They found that a protein found in large airways, called ‘SPLUNC1,’ binds to lipids critical to defending against bacterial and viral infections,...
People who have asthma generally suffer worse with colds caused by rhinoviruses than other people do. There are also asthmatics and patients with the severe lung condition COPD in whom the cold virus can trigger serious flare-ups of their condition. A team of...
Researchers have dismissed previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The study includes half a million children and shows that exposure to antibiotics during pregnancy or early...
Research article José Laerte Júnior, Marcus Barreto Conde, Krislainy de Sousa Corrêa, Christina da Silva, Leonardo da Silva Prestes and Marcelo Fouad Rabahi BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2014, 14:186 doi:10.1186/1471-2466-14-186 Published: 28...
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