When you are dealing with a disease or illness, your immune system is compromised, making it easier to pick up germs and bugs. While it’s impossible to live in a ... Read more
Widespread use of antibiotics in newborns may interfere with gut bacteria, increasing the risk of the infants developing pneumonia, according to a study. The research, “Intestinal Commensal Bacteria Mediate Lung ... Read more
Heartburn medication to treat acid reflux during pregnancy may be linked with the development of asthma in newborns, but it is not yet clear whether this association is direct or ... Read more
Merck recently announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the approval of the drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab), to be used ... Read more
Researchers at the University of Queensland are testing a new promising drug developed by Pfizer that could slow down the development of asthma or even reverse it. The preliminary findings using a ... Read more
Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), School of Medicine found that smoking E-cigarettes lowers the expression of dozens of genes involved in immune defense mechanisms responsible for prevention ... Read more
A collaborative study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators suggests that starving the immune system might lead to treatments for lung diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), ... Read more
In a new study, researchers at Rice University in Houston and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated for the first time that some aggressive lung cancer cells associated ... Read more
Electronic or e-cigarettes impair innate immune defenses and promote the growth of bacteria in the airways, according to the results of a recent mouse study, “Electronic cigarette inhalation alters innate immunity ... Read more
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), an academic medical center in Charleston, is enrolling participants for a Phase 1b/2 clinical trial to test whether a new combination of two ... Read more
