Noise noise go away
Noise from busy roads might increase heart disease risk, finds new study
Traffic noise, as well as air pollution, could affect heart health, according to new research.
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Stories tagged with 'asthma'
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Troubled breathing
Researchers show how diesel fumes could cause 'flare up' of respiratory symptoms
Scientists have shown how diesel fumes trigger respiratory reflexes which could potentially worsen underlying conditions, such as asthma.
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Asthma adaptations
Asthma could be cured within a generation, say European researchers
A cure for asthma could be a generation away if there were more international research collaboration and investment based on recent advances.
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Max Grell
PE-CDT student develops pollution sensor and app OpenSense
Imperial College students Max Grell (PE-CDT Cohort 7), Michael Kasimatis and Giandrin Barandun developed a cheap, disposable stick-on polution sensor.
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Vital statistics
Experts explain how big data will help patients, in new seminar series
Big data can bring about big improvements in research and healthcare, according to the speakers at a new seminar series that launched this week
Too many inhalers
Is asthma being over-diagnosed in children?
Professor Andrew Bush and Dr Louise Fleming have highlighted concern over the over-prescription of steroid inhalers to children with asthma.
Monitor your asthma
Patients sought to help develop asthma monitoring device myAirCoach
The theme for World Asthma Day on 5th May is "You can control your asthma", and researchers at NHLI are developing a monitor called 'myAirCoach'.
Understanding asthma
Mechanism found for reduced effectiveness of corticosteroid treatment in asthma
New mechanism discovered behind reduced effectiveness of corticosteroid treatment in patients with severe asthma by Dr Pankaj Bhavsar and colleagues.
Allergy insights
Epigenetic study highlights drug targets for allergies and asthma
Scientists have discovered over 30 new genes that predispose people to allergies and asthma, some of which could be targets for new drugs.
Gill power
New project receives funding to study asthma responses in zebrafish
Imperial research investigating the effect of cigarette smoke on zebrafish is one of four pioneering projects that will study asthma in non-mammals
