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The incidence of thyroid cancer has been rapidly increasing in the United States, but few risk factors have been established. The authors prospectively examined the associations of self-reported medical history, anthropometric factors, and behavioral factors with thyroid cancer risk among 90,713 US radiologic technologists (69,506 women and 21,207 men) followed from 1983 through 2006. [...]

Small maladaptations in cellular response to environmental stressors may underlie diseases like asthma. However, genomewide transcriptional profile comparisons between case and controls only highlight the quantitatively largest changes. Critical cellular homeostatic pathways may be upregulated modestly during normal adaptation to stress but insufficiently during disease. To discover such pathways in asthma, we utilized public information [...]

Guidelines for inadequately controlled childhood asthma recommend several treatment options. Among them, is LABA a good option? Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

In case you missed it, Margaret Chan, MD, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), yesterday cautioned the world that the H1N1 pandemic is not over, even though you’re not hearing as much about it in the media or around the watercooler. “It is too premature and too early for us to say we [...]

Conclusions: The combination of fexofenadine with either montelukast or a low-dose inhaled corticosteroid (fluticasone) equally reduces the serum sICAM-1 concentration and gives the same clinical effect in patients with persistent allergic rhinitis and newly diagnosed asthma. (Source: Articles of Archives of Medical Science - TERMEDIA publishing house)

Title: Chronic BronchitisCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 12/30/2009 1:43:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 12/30/2009 1:43:53 PM (Source: MedicineNet Asthma General)

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Title: Indoor Allergies Common in WinterCategory: Health NewsCreated: 12/29/2009 2:10:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 12/30/2009 (Source: MedicineNet Asthma General)

A variant of MMP12, encoding a matrix metallopeptidase, is associated with increased lung function in children with asthma and in adult smokers. It is also associated with a decreased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adult smokers. (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are obstructive airway diseases that involve chronic inflammation of the lower respiratory tract. They differ from each other in the pattern of inflammation, … (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)

Conclusions:
Although the major pathogen responsible for bronchiolitis remains RSV, the infection can also be caused by RV and hBoV. Demographic characteristics and clinical severity of the disease may depend on the number of viruses or on the specific virus detected. (Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood)