Parental Depression Increases Asthma Risk in Children

HealthDay News — A child may face an increased risk of asthma if the child's mother or father experienced depression during the pregnancy or if the mother took an older antidepressant to treat her condition, new research suggests. The study findings were published online in Pediatrics.....

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Soldier John Sharpe and son Jonathan plan charity cycle in aid of schoolboy and asthma awareness

A father and son from the Rhymney Valley will cycle a staggering 170 miles in aid of a 12-year-old boy left brain damaged after suffering an asthma attack.
Serving soldier John Sharpe, 46, and his son Jonathan, 28, will cycle from Deepcut in Surrey to Bridgend on May 2 using A and B roads only.....

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Scientists Open Door for Asthma Cure

Imagine a single drug that could prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, treat patients who have already contracted HIV, and even remove all the dormant copies of the virus from those with the more advanced disease. It sounds like science fiction, but Salk scientists have gotten one step closer to creating such a drug by customizing a powerful defense system used by many bacteria and training this scissor-like machinery to recognize the HIV virus.....

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