Sunday, February 22, 2009

Health 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.

  • Children with peanut allergy given small daily doses of peanut flour were able to build tolerance - potential "cure"? http://is.gd/kgMK

  • You've heard about it in the news but this is the source: Successful oral tolerance induction in severe peanut allergy. http://is.gd/kg4L

  • Serum interleukin-17 levels are related to clinical severity in allergic rhinitis http://tinyurl.com/dhwjyq

  • Vitamin B12 Useful for Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis (RAS), RAS affects 25% in the general population http://is.gd/kizv

  • in RAS, 74% of patients treated with sublingual vitamin B12 were aphthous ulcer-free compared with 32% with placebo http://is.gd/kizv

  • Ustekinumab (anti-IL12, IL 23) reduced symptoms of psoriatic arthritis and psoriatic skin lesions, well tolerated http://is.gd/kgAL

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