High sugar intake in pregnancy linked to double risk of child asthma

Women who eat too much sugar during pregnancy are doubling the chance of their child going on to develop asthma, new research suggests.
A study of almost 9,000 mother and child pairs starting in the 1990s found a link between free sugars, such as those found in fizzy drinks and processed food, and the inflammatory disease.
Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London compared the 20 per cent of mothers who consumed the most sugar, equivalent to more than five teaspoons a day, or two cans of full-fat coke, to the 20 per cent who had the least.....

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Could a 30-year-old asthma drug lead to a new treatment for diabetes?

The anti-inflammatory drug amlexanox was invented in Japan in the 1980s to treat asthma but was quickly eclipsed by more effective treatments. Now a team of scientists led by the University of California at San Diego is looking at repurposing the drug in an entirely new setting: Type 2 diabetes.
The UCSD team, working with scientists at the Salk Institute and the University of Michigan, discovered that two enzymes called IKKe and TBK1 are ratcheted up in obese mice, making it difficult for them to burn calories and expend energy. So they screened 150,000 chemicals in search of something that would inhibit those two enzymes, according to a press release from UCSD. That’s when they stumbled upon amlexanox. They’ve now shown that some people with Type 2 diabetes experience a significant drop in glucose after taking the drug.....

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Newport girl dies of apparent asthma attack after fireworks

The Bybee community of Cocke County is mourning following the death of a 9-year-old girl who had an apparent asthma attack following a fireworks celebration.
On Tuesday evening, Lourdes Trevino, 9, was enjoying fireworks with her older brother and sister, Sergio and Patricia, when she began having trouble breathing. Her difficulties likely stemmed from the smoke from the fireworks, family members say.
She returned to her nearby home on Marshall Hollow Road in the Bybee community of Cocke County where she told her grandmother she couldn’t breathe.....

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