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This potency is partly drawn from life. Elliot's handyman father, like the title character of Uncle, ran a series of hardware stores around Melbourne; his mother bears an uncanny resemblance to Harvie's wife - also a knitter - called Val. (For the record, brother Luke didn't succumb to asthma like his screen counterpart in Brother; he acts in the prize-winning short Roy Hollsdotter Live, which is released with Harvie Krumpet in Australian theaters this week; the latter screens on sbs-tv March 8.) And as for Harvie's existential angst, it's all about Adam. "I've struggled...
...DeCode Genetics, an Icelandic biotech firm, announced last week that it is launching a pilot study to test whether an anti-inflammatory drug that was under development for use in treating asthma might work to prevent heart attacks...
...Asthma Without Allergies? One of the most intriguing questions in immunology today is why everyone doesn't suffer from asthma. After all, the air we breathe is full of germs, viruses and other irritants. Since half of the 17 million Americans with asthma are hypersensitive to common substances like cat dander or pollen, it stands to reason that their allergic reactions trigger the chronic inflammation in their bodies. Yet the people who develop asthma as adults - one of the most rapidly growing segments of the population - often don't have allergies. Doctors still don't know what's driving their...
Many treatments for asthma are designed to control inflammation, although they still don't cure the disease. "It may mean that the inflammatory hypothesis is not entirely correct or the drugs that we use to treat inflammation aren't fully potent," says Dr. Stephen Wasserman, an allergist at the University of California at San Diego. "There are a lot of gaps to fill...
Early in his tour around the bleak world of low-paying jobs, David Shipler describes a kind of domino model of a downward economic spiral. "A rundown apartment can exacerbate a child's asthma, which leads to a call for an ambulance, which generates a medical bill that cannot be paid, which ruins a credit record, which hikes the interest rate on an auto loan, which forces the purchase of an unreliable used car, which jeopardizes a mother's punctuality at work, which limits her promotions and earning capacity, which confines her to poor housing." Which exacerbates the asthma...