Studying Breathing Problems in Horses May Help Humans With Asthma

Adults with asthma struggle to breathe when they are exposed to dust and allergens. They can exhale without too much difficulty, but their inflamed lungs with narrowed airways make it hard to inhale enough oxygen, and the mucus in their airways leads to coughing.
When horses have the same symptoms, the condition is called “heaves.” In Ontario, where most horses are stabled indoors much of the time, it’s very common. “Any barn owner with 10 or more horses will know about heaves,” says Dorothee Bienzle, a pathobiology professor at the Ontario Veterinary College.....

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NIH Grants $4.2M to New York Pediatrician to Study Asthma Management in Children

A $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was recently awarded to attending physician Dr. Marina Reznik at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York City, to study children’ primary care asthma management using their electronic health records. Reznik is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.....

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Asthma and allergies caused by our sanitised, modern lives

Are allergies and diseases like asthma the result of our overly-sanitised modern lives, which include routine vaccinations and a diet of processed foods? It would seem so, as a new study of the isolated Amish community has discovered.
There are almost no cases of asthma among the Amish children, who often help out on the farm, and work closely with the soil and farmyard animals.....

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