Repeat of thunderstorm asthma event feared with SA dust storms

Dust storms in South Australia have prompted warnings for people with respiratory and cardiac conditions to take precautions to avoid a “thunderstorm asthma” like event With the Bureau of Meteorology reporting strong northerly winds creating dust ahead of a massive old...

Dust storms in South Australia have prompted warnings for people with respiratory and cardiac conditions to take precautions to avoid...

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Respiratory physicians in Queen’s Birthday Honours List

Several prominent respiratory and sleep medicine clinicians have been recognised in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.Professor Christine McDonald, Director of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Austin Health, Melbourne, is named as a Member in the General...

Several prominent respiratory and sleep medicine clinicians have been recognised in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.Professor Christine McDonald, Director...

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Sublingual immunotherapy tablets are best protection against thunderstorm asthma

Sublingual immunotherapy has been proposed as the mainstay of protection against future epidemics of thunderstorm asthma based on findings from a small Victorian study. Seventeen patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis showed no symptoms during Melbourne’s severe thunderstorm asthma event of...

Sublingual immunotherapy has been proposed as the mainstay of protection against future epidemics of thunderstorm asthma based on findings from...

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What are allergies and why are we getting more of them?

Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless to most people. They may occur in response to a range of different material (called allergens), such as food, pollen, dust mites,...

Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless to most...