Kids may be more likely to get asthma if grandma smoked while pregnant

(HealthDay News) -- Children whose grandmothers smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma, even if their own mothers did not smoke, a new study suggests.
It's known that smoking can cause changes in gene activity. The new study findings suggest that those changes can be passed down through more than one generation, the researchers said.....

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Project Establishes Distinct Asthma Phenotypes 
Effort could eventually help clinicians tailor management to individual patients

AMSTERDAM -- A more personalized brand of medicine may be on the horizon for asthma patients and their physicians, thanks to a phenotype-classification project described here.
A new report, unveiled at the European Respiratory Society International Congress 2015, identifies the signature characteristics of asthma patients with frequent exacerbations compared with those with more indolent disease, along with a taxonomy of different asthma phenotypes.....

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Engineers Team Up For Pediatric Asthma Database

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Neal Patwari and School of Computing Assistant Professor Miriah Meyer are part of a multidisciplinary team at the University of Utah that is creating a database of information studying the effects of air quality on kids with asthma.....

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