Israeli scientists have developed a technique for eliminating such allergies as the common cold and asthma.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctoral candidate Ido Bachelet has created a technique he said might become medicine’s first line of allergy therapy.
The technique focuses on mast cells — the cells that help trigger allergic reactions. Bachelet identified a mast cell […]
Researchers from Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are the first to show that carbon nanospheres, sometimes referred to as “buckyballs,” are able to block allergic response in human cell culture experiments and mice. These findings are described in a paper entitled “Fullerene Nanomaterials Inhibit the Allergic Response” published in the […]
I’m not much of a cook. Once I managed to ruin a perfectly good pot while boiling water (I forgot about it until the pacifier I was sterilizing became a charred, smoking mass of plastic and latex). Back in my medical school days, I was quite content to exist for weeks at a time on […]
Allergic disease is the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the United States, and while various treatments have been developed to control allergy, no cure has been found. These findings advance the emerging field of medicine known as nanoimmunology.
The researchers, from Virginia Commonwealth University and Luna Innovations Inc., a private, Roanoke, Va., research company, […]
WALES has just one specialist to deal with one million people nationwide who are suffering from allergies.
One in three people here have some form of allergy, but with an eight-month waiting time to see Wales’ only consultant clinical immunologist, based in Cardiff, most either self-medicate or pay to be seen in private.
Experts last night warned […]
6/12/2007 6:41:50 AM Vical Inc. (VICL) on Tuesday revealed the receipt of a three-year, $6.0 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases or NIAID, as part of the National Institutes of Health, for further development of a DNA vaccine manufacturing process with the potential to produce several million doses of vaccines […]
Aerosol Science Laboratories Inc. has just released two new compounded medications, which are now available for nasal inhalation. Aerosol Science’s ASL Pharmacy division has added Mupirocin (active ingredient in Bactroban®) and Mometasone (active ingredient in Nasonex®) to its extensive list of compounded antibiotic, antifungal and corticosteroid aerosolized solutions for treating sinus conditions. Unlike traditional therapies, […]
Aerosol Science Laboratories Inc. has just released two new compounded medications, which are now available for nasal inhalation. Aerosol Science’s ASL Pharmacy division has added Mupirocin (active ingredient in Bactroban®) and Mometasone (active ingredient in Nasonex®) to its extensive list of compounded antibiotic, antifungal and corticosteroid aerosolized solutions for treating sinus conditions. Unlike traditional therapies, […]
Hardcore shooting fans may not be a dime a dozen as they used to be in the 16-bit days of Gaiares and R-Type, but they’re still out there. And one of the games that many of them were looking forward to was Radio Allergy for the Nintendo GameCube, which was initially set for a February […]