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Asthma
American Asthma Foundation Announces Breakthrough Discovery
January 20th, 2009
The American Asthma Foundation announced a research breakthrough that explains why tiny, household pests called dust mites are a major source of airborne allergens for patients with allergic asthma. Dean Smith, Executive Director of the American Asthma Foundation, explains that "although dust mites are known to trigger asthma attacks, until now we did not know why the allergic response to the mites was so strong." The mystery was solved as a result of research funded by the American Asthma Foundation's Strategic Program for Asthma Research (SPAR). The results were published December 7, 2008 on http://www.nature.com/, the on-line edition of Nature, a prestigious...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-20)
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