Preterm birth is associated with increased risk of asthma and wheezing disorders

Children who are born preterm have an increased risk developing asthma and wheezing disorders during childhood according to new research published in PLOS Medicine.....

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Coordinated evidence-based care improves asthma outcomes for high-risk adolescents

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A coordinated program of standardized evidence-based care can improve asthma control in high-risk adolescents in primary care, researchers say.
Asthma outcomes are worse for adolescents than for younger patients, but previous studies showed no significant improvement in key asthma outcomes despite several types of interventions......

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23andMe helps identify 11 new genetic associations for asthma-with-hay fever

Mountain View, Calif. –January 28, 2014 23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, has participated in the first ever genome-wide association study of the combined asthma-with-hay fever phenotype. Led by researchers at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, the study identified 11 independent genetic markers associated with the development of asthma-with-hay fever, including two associations reaching a level of significance with allergic disease for the first time. Through these findings, 23andMe aims to substantially improve the ability to detect genetic risk factors shared between both diseases.....

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