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Asthma affects about half a million Australian children and is one of the most common reasons why kids need to see a doctor or go to emergency.
New research from Perth’s The Kids Research Institute Australia shows that babies born premature continue to have lung problems well into childhood.
A new and potentially more pathogenic group of human rhinovirus (HRV), group C (HRVC), has recently been discovered.
Prospective birth cohort studies tracking asthma initiation and consolidation in community cohorts have identified viral infections occurring against a...
A hallmark of atopic asthma is development of chronic airways hyper-responsiveness (AHR) that persists in the face of ongoing exposure to perennial...
Information is accumulating which implicates airway inflammation resulting from respiratory viral infections, acting against a background of atopy.
The epidemic increase in the prevalence of allergic disease, which first started in the industrialized countries in the 1960s, may have reached a peak in the...
Population-based birth cohorts on asthma and allergies increasingly provide new insights into the development and natural history of the diseases.
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways, most commonly driven by immuno-inflammatory responses to ubiquitous airborne antigens.
There is evidence to suggest an association between prenatal maternal stress and the development of asthma or other atopic diseases in offspring.