Allergy and Immunology News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

• World Asthma Day is May 5, 2009 (the first Tuesday of May) http://bit.ly/NskI6 - improve asthma awareness and care around the world
  

• Obese children and adolescents are 26 percent more likely to have some kind of allergy, especially to food http://is.gd/wHzt
  
  
• Vitamin D Insufficiency Linked to Asthma Severity, Medscape: http://is.gd/w1IS
  
  
• Individuals with the lowest serum folate levels were 31% more likely to have atopy and 40% more likely to wheeze http://is.gd/vRoH
  
  
• ENT expanding into pulmonologists/allergists' domain:"Inclusion of Asthma in Otolaryngologic Clinical Practice" by ENToday http://is.gd/w1OO
  
  
• Easy Way to Ease Infant Immunization Pain: give the less painful vaccine first, most painful - last http://is.gd/wHyT

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