Word: pollenization
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...according to Dr. Michael Cabana, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who led the study. One of the most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With...
...brilliant in the use and elaboration of evidence...archeological evidence, coins, fossilized pollen,” Hankins says...
...it’s only now that the so-called “best years of my life” have been reduced to a mere tally of hours that I’m beginning to see what she meant. It’s the time of year where pollen and nostalgia are in the air, and it’s hard not to get a bit teary-eyed from both. I was given 1,080 days as a Harvard student—how well did I spend them...
...House, William F. Andress ’04, Melissa A. Eccleston ’04, Moira L. Hill ’04, Leslie Sierra Jamison ’04, Kate D. Nesin ’03-’04, Matthew N. Ocheltree ’04, Alexander A. Pollen ’04, Benjamin I. Schapira ’04 and Sylvia Yang ’04. Jyoti S. Kandlikar ’04 received an honorable mention...
...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 disease, but the signs of inflammation...