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.

• A thymic stromal lymphopoietin gene variant is associated with asthma and airway hyperresponsiveness http://bit.ly/DX4qE
  
  
• Decreased expression of leptin/leptin receptor characterizes severe asthma and is associated with airway remodeling http://bit.ly/H9N3y
  
  
• Eczema herpeticum develops in AD with more severe TH2-polarized disease: allergen sensitization, food allergy, asthma http://bit.ly/oVON8
  
  
• Obstructive sleep apnea–hypopnea is more prevalent among patients with severe compared with moderate asthma http://bit.ly/GdAhn
  
  
• Drug induced hypersensitivity syndrome (DIHS) as altern. name for drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic sx (DRESS). Vitamin D deficiency might be a DIHS (DRESS) risk or severity factor http://bit.ly/Qt23G
  
  
• Bladder cancer cells cloak themselves with a "don't eat me" signal (CD47) that scares off immune system cells http://bit.ly/Tk1vF
  
  
• Find allergists on Twitter or Search By Profession by using TweepSearch - example: http://bit.ly/129ATE -- Find Out Who Follows Whom on Twitter http://whofollowswhom.com - For example, who do all allergists on Twitter follow?
  
  

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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