Category: News & Articles
... very early in the disease process for virus-and allergen-induced asthma. By Dr Joerg Mattes Last year our paediatric and respiratory ... very early in the disease process for virus-and allergen-induced asthma. The discovery has moved us significantly closer to identifying ... of these asthma attacks are caused by viruses. Asthmatics experience severe and prolonged symptoms when infected with the common cold virus ...
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... and Co-Director of the HMRI Viruses, Infections/Immunity, Viruses and Asthma (VIVA) research program, as well as Co-Director of the University of Newcastle’s Priority Research Centre (PRC) for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases. He is also the past President of the ... in leading international journal The Lancet this year showed that severe asthma attacks were reduced by 40 per cent with a low daily ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... Program, co-leader of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Severe Asthma and a practicing academic clinician in the Department of ... approaches to the management of chronic airway diseases particularly severe asthma and COPD. Her translational research programme links ...
Category: Research
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting 10% of ... disease is characterised by intermittent acute episodes of worsening asthma, often called asthma ‘attacks’. Prevention of asthma attacks ... than the general population and this has been linked to more severe asthma and more frequent viral infections and attacks. Thus, a ...
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Research Phenotype based management of severe persistent asthma ...
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Research Identifying biomarkers that predict severe asthma exacerbations during pregnancy ...
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Adults with asthma are needed to help researchers better understand breathlessness. ... fighting every breath that you have to breathe’. A person with severe asthma on the daily burden Breathlessness is one of the most common and ...
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... Researcher and Executive Officer for the Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma at the Hunter Medical Research Institute and the University of ... the country visited Newcastle for the Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma Annual Research Day to share their insights and forge ...
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Asthma affects up to 10% of Australians and is the most common chronic disease complication during pregnancy. Poor asthma control during pregnancy has been shown to be associated with ... for airways inflammation). Bronchiolitis is the most common and severe virus-induced wheezy lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... international research profile in the fields of non-eosinophilic asthma, non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation and neutrophilic ... to include the study of airway bacteria and she now leads the severe asthma microbiome and resistome project in Australia in ... in our understanding of the composition of the airway microbiome in severe asthma and is essential to our future clinical management of ...
