Chlamydia trachomatis also causes blindness, while its cousin, Chlamydia pneumoniae, is implicated in childhood asthma and adult emphysema.
"For the first time, we've shown that personalised medicine can work in the field of childhood asthma, " professor Mukhopadhyay says.
Scientists are to begin clinical trials to determine if eating more foods rich in vitamin E during pregnancy prevents childhood asthma.
And since it will prevent thousands of heart attacks and cases of childhood asthma, it will also take some strain off our health care system.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at Conference on Conservation
Born in 1936 in St John's Wood in north London, Scarfe's childhood asthma led to long periods in bed that enabled him to indulge his passion for drawing.
The results of this "next stage prosperity, " the vice president argued, could include cleaner air, significant economic benefits, and a gradual reduction in rates of respiratory ailments -- including childhood asthma.
In a 7, 600-person study published in 2007, he found that people with a certain strain of H. pylori in their tummies were 40% less likely to get childhood asthma than those without it.
The debate surfaced a policy difference on the so-called mercury standard, EPA regulations to limit mercury and other air pollutants from power plants that have been linked to childhood asthma and other health problems.
According to the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, studies of pesticide harm point to everything from elevated rates of childhood leukemias, soft-tissue sarcomas (aggressive tumors), and brain cancers to childhood asthma and other respiratory problems.
CNN: Children face danger in the schoolyard grass from pesticides
Against strong competition, Imperial county has some of California's worst air, with the highest rate of childhood hospitalisation for asthma.
ECONOMIST: In a ��green�� state, an environmental disaster looms
Yes, breast-feeding can help prevent SIDS, obesity, childhood leukemia, asthma, and lowered IQ ... but none of those matter if your baby is failing to thrive because of malnutrition.
Dr Johnson found that those who had taken them were over two and a half times more likely to suffer from asthma later on in childhood than those who had not.
Tooth decay is a leading chronic childhood disease -- more common than asthma -- and it's almost entirely preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
By following a large cohort from before birth to adulthood the project could provide new insight into rare conditions such as autism, congenital malformations, childhood cancer, type 1 diabetes, and asthma.
FORBES: What Caused A Billion Dollar Federal Study Of Child Health To Implode?
Starting in childhood, Ken Spriggs grappled with eczema, then asthma.
FORBES: A Graphic Use Of Drugs: How One Patient Visualized His Health Data
As the incidence of childhood infections has fallen, a number of chronic ailments, such as diabetes and asthma, have become more frequent.
But Kozyrskyj says she plans to connect these changes to childhood conditions to find any possible associations between certain microbial communities and conditions such as allergy or asthma.
应用推荐