Researchers analyzed asthma-related tweets, along with data from air quality sensors, to successfully predict how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room on a given day. “We realized that asthma is one of the biggest traffic generators in the...
By determining the structure of a common respiratory bacterium’s toxin, researchers have taken a step toward development of drugs and vaccines for reactive airway diseases. Mycoplasma pneumoniae is spread by sneezing, coughing, talking and touching hands to the...
Asthma rates among black youth living in urban Detroit and rural Georgia are essentially the same, researchers report, a finding that conflicts with the widely held theory that city life is a risk factor, and pointing instead toward poverty.
A cellular receptor for rhinovirus C, a cold-causing virus that is strongly associated with severe asthma attacks, has been identified by researchers. A variant in the gene for this receptor previously had been linked to asthma in genetic studies, but the potential...
Children exposed to greater number of adverse childhood experiences had increased risk of asthma incidence, research shows. The survey drew from interviews with parents of more than 92,000 children aged 0 to 17 years to explore the relationship between adverse...
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