In his new book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? When Celebrity Culture & Science Clash (Viking, Jan. 13, 2015), health science expert Professor Timothy Caulfield examines how our obsession with celebrity culture can cloud our thinking about health, diet, …
Teenagers with food allergies would like hands-on practice using epinephrine auto-injectors and to role play scenarios about safe ways to eat out, travel and date, according to new Canadian research about teens learning preferences. Allergic teens participated in focus groups …
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AllerGen researchers at The University of British Columbia (UBC) have published a new study in Particle and Fibre Toxicology, adding to their growing body of research about the relationship between exposure to diesel exhaust and asthma. Two hours of inhaling …
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) secretion from human nasal epithelium is a function of TSLP genotype (Hui, Akhabir, Sandford, Neighbour, Denburg et al.) Short-term diesel exhaust inhalation in a controlled human crossover study is associated with changes in DNA methylation of …
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A recent publication by AllerGen investigator Timothy Caulfield (University of Alberta law professor, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy) and his colleagues, revealed the prominent trends and discourses used by the chiropractic profession in their online communication with …
The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has selected a 2013 paper by AllerGen researchers to receive the Bruce Squires Award. The award is “awarded annually to the author(s) of the research paper published in the journal (during the previous year) …
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AllerGen researchers at McMaster University have discovered that eosinophils (specialized white blood cells) in the intestine play a different role in the allergic response that causes food allergy and anaphylaxis than was previously thought Eosinophils are typically considered to be …
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Dr. Kari Nadeau, one of North America’s foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy, will lead the new Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research to be established at Stanford University in California. A US $24 million grant from technology …
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Allergic Living’s Winter 2015 issue features AllerGen’s Cross-Canada Anaphylaxis Registry (C-CARE)—the first-ever prospective study on anaphylaxis. Launched in 2011, C-CARE identifies anaphylaxis cases through reports from ambulance paramedics, emergency departments and allergists, and collects data on the cause, triggers and …
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced the creation of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF)—a $1.5 billion investment in university research over 10 years starting in the 2015‒2016 academic year. The Fund will be available to post-secondary institutions on …
The Canadian Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Foundation (CAAIF) has announced $25,000 in funding for allergy and immunology research. The 2015 CAAIF Research Grant Competition will offer up to $25,000 of total funding to support one (1) grant or up to …
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