Nanotech can be used for MS, diabetes, food allergies and asthma

In a breakthrough for nanotechnology and multiple sclerosis, a biodegradable nanoparticle turns out to be the perfect vehicle to stealthily deliver an antigen that tricks the immune system into stopping its attack on myelin and halt a model of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.....

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Eating fish as infants may reduce the chance of asthma

Dutch researchers released a study on Friday that suggests if fish is added to an infant’s diet during the first year it reduces the chance of them getting asthma in the future. Asthma is a lung disease that currently affects over 40 million people. The lungs are effectively blocks the airways in the lungs thereby making it difficult to breathe.....

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1990s trial gave early danger signs for asthma drugs

The troubled history of asthma drugs known as long-acting beta-agonists goes back to the 1990s when a large clinical trial in Great Britain of the GlaxoSmithKline drug Serevent produced disturbing results.....

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