This wearable patch and smart inhaler rethink how you deal with asthma
Breathe easy - Respia is a fresh take on designing for asthma devices

Asthma management is getting an overhaul. Respia is a wearable patch that acts as a sensitive piezoacoustics monitor to detect breathlessness via wheezing or respiration-related inflammation.
It's the work of 22 year-old University of New South Wales design graduate Katherine Kawecki and the system has just been named runner up in the James Dyson Award.....

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Atopy and Allergen Exposure Impact Asthma Severity in Children

Children with severe, persistent asthma in Memphis, TN, suffer an extremely high rate of atopy, according to a recent study. Conducted by Jennifer Lan, MD, of the Department of Allergy and Immunology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN, and colleagues, the study was published recently in the journal Insights in Allergy, Asthma, and Bronchitis.
The researchers set out to conduct a pilot study which they claimed, “was undertaken to capture a sample of severe persistent asthmatics” in Memphis and the surrounding mid-south delta region. “Here we present clinical characterization of this cohort highlighting an alarmingly high prevalence of atopy in young children in this southern region of the US,” they added.....

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Vehicular pollution escalates asthma risk in children: Study

Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 18 (ANI): A recent study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Journal showed that residential distance to a major road (a marker of exposure to traffic-related air pollution TRAP) is associated with increased allergic inflammation.
The exposure is associated with increased plasma levels of interleukin 31 (IL-31), a cytokine that promotes allergic inflammation.....

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