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Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology.
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical are joining an intensified effort by the National Institutes of Health to fight the growing problem of food allergies.
The age of onset of puberty in girls continues to decline. A new study shows that the number of 7- and 8-year-old girls who have breast development is greater than that indicated in studies conducted 10 to 30 years earlier.
Scientists report that viral infection of the heart is a predictor of heart transplant failure in young children and adolescents, although it can be detected by screening for viral genes and treated to improve organ survival.
Marc E. Rothenberg, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s, has received an NIH MERIT Award to extend funding of his long-standing investigation into “Regulation of Gastrointestinal Eosinophils.”
