Here's a new twist on the hygiene theory of allergies and asthma: how about infecting patients with parasites to stimulate their immune system? As awful as that sounds, researchers believe that the absence of these formerly common human hitchhikers, may explain the rising rates of certain illnesses, including asthma and diabetes. ...

If your children are eating fast food as little as once or twice a week, you've canceled out the benefits of breastfeeding for reducing respiratory disease. That's the results of a new study that he been published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy. The study looked at children in ...

When pregnant women go on a cleaning binge, they could be contributing to their future child's tendency to allergies. In fact, research shows that exposure to household cleaning products of all kinds during pregnancy and early life is linked directly to a higher rate of asthma. Previous studies have already ...