PHILADELPHIA – Yet another gene has been found to raise the risk of asthma, but only in Europeans and their descendants and not in African Americans. The study, conducted jointly by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was published in the Journal of ...

CONNECTICUT – A bad reaction to a prescribed or over the counter (OTC) drug is every parent's worst nightmare. How do you know if that reaction is an allergy or a common side effect? Dr. Armen Ketchedjian offers a series of tips to help parents to monitor any reaction to a ...

TORONTO – New research indicates that children who are placed in daycare from 6 months of age on, have a lower rate of developing asthma. The numbers were impressive: in the British study of over 900 children, those placed in daycare after 6 months of age had 1/3 less risk ...

NEW YORK – It seems that if you are infected with the right kind of bacteria, your chances of asthma go down. At least that's what researchers in the US have found. Apparently, childhood asthma rates are much lower in kids who carry Helicobacter pylori (also known as H. pylori), ...

In another example of how discoveries in medicine (and any science) sometimes take a strange turn, researchers have found that an older antihistamine that worked by blocking certain signals in the brain can also protect brain tissue. In fact, the drug called dimebon significantly improved the symptom ...